Why is the site so slow?

[arya6000]

Hi

My server would get to load 10 and the pages would still load in a good time. but now when the server is at load 2.00 the pages take forever to load, the server's hdd got 98% full and I deleted some files and now its 91% Full, does that have to do with it being so slow? How can I find out if its the hard drive that is causing the pages to load slow?


Thank You!

[jledhead]

a full harddrive will definitly affect things. your system is constantly writing log files and when the drive fills up and it can't write logs anymore it kinda chokes.

after clearing up drive space is it better?

here is a nice command to show the 10 largest folders

du -k /folder/you/want/to/search/ | sort -n | tail -10

[arya6000]

a full harddrive will definitly affect things. your system is constantly writing log files and when the drive fills up and it can't write logs anymore it kinda chokes.

after clearing up drive space is it better?

here is a nice command to show the 10 largest folders

du -k /folder/you/want/to/search/ | sort -n | tail -10

I deleted user uploaded files and managed to get it to 88% full, its a bid better now, but I have never deleted any logs, what are these logs?

[jledhead]

no, I wasn't suggesting to delete logs. I was just saying the stuff is constantly getting written to the disk, even if you are just using a web server. so a full disk will make lots of things choke.

[meton_magis]

just an FYI,

I've found
du -kx | sort -n
to be supperior, because the -x switch to du keeps the search on the root partition. That way, your not analyzing files on a disk that's 1&#37; full, trying to fix a drive that's 99% full .......... I learned the hard way ><