target of high volume

[jasoncj7]

on server sinope, site has once again been .htaccess'd away and im guessing its due to high traffic (although well within our limits for the plan). i forgot the password for the jaguarpc.com client login and so has the site owner (i manage it), anyone have a suggestion?

i see the server is quite heavily used now with our site off, so i know that we are hardly the culprit.

sinope:~/www uptime
 14:36:00 up 122 days,  1:40,  1 user,  load average: 18.79, 17.71, 13.09

also, check the "WA" state, its usually high like that...

Tasks: 178 total,   3 running, 173 sleeping,   0 stopped,   2 zombie
Cpu(s): 11.0% us,  4.3% sy,  0.0% ni,  4.3% id, 80.2% wa,  0.2% hi,  0.0% si
Mem:   2008864k total,  1923316k used,    85548k free,   119760k buffers
Swap:  4192924k total,    22972k used,  4169952k free,  1165396k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI %CPU    TIME+  %MEM  VIRT  RES  SHR S COMMAND                                    
 7541 nobody    16   0    5  19:18.16  0.4 12744 7808 1664 S httpd                                       
15991 nobody    16   0    5   1:08.01  0.4 12612 7616 1600 S httpd                                       
22569 32193     17   0    3   0:00.10  1.8 52884  35m  31m R php                                         
22306 32012     17   0    2   0:00.10  0.4 18420 8472 3508 S php                                         
22549 32193     16   0    2   0:00.06  0.4 53512 8992 4872 S php                                         
22568 32021     18   0    2   0:00.05  0.4 55572 8508 4540 D php                                         
22567 32021     17   0    1   0:00.04  0.4 54376 7288 4532 D php                                         
22566 32217     18   0    1   0:00.02  0.2 50080 4444 3372 D php                                         
 4088 root      15   0    0   0:23.48  0.0     0    0    0 D pdflush                                     
 7532 nobody    15   0    0  17:27.52  0.4 12692 7760 1664 S httpd                                       
22564 32193     17   0    0   0:00.01  0.2 50080 4444 3372 D php

bad memory? errors on disk?

[Gwaihir]

The site owner had best get himself a client area password again asap. There's a lost password link on the client login page. If that fails him, he can contact JagPC sales for it. He can then work on this via the ticket system (or can have you do that if he chooses to share the password). Good luck with it!

Observations on high resource usage (not pointing fingers, just going by your own guess):
- If there's a problem like that on a server, it's quite normal that there's a hand full of sites involved. It takes quite a lot to bring these beasts of servers to their knees. So they may well be looking at other sites still too (and / or about to move a few to another server).
- Are you refering to bandwith limits for your plan? Bandwith useage is usually not the problem. More often than not the culprits are a few elaborate or very inefficient steps somewhere in the scripts your site depends on. Depending on their purpose and your ability, you may well be able to sort these out. Otherwise it's probably time to upgrade.

[RickWeb]

Proberly some just running a dodgy script that has been bot'ed to hell