Awstats | High CPU load daily

[fearz]

PRODUCT, VERSION, OPERATING SYSTEM, ARCHITECTURE
Plesk 10.3.1 / Centos OS / Linux 2.6.18-194.32.1.el5 #1 SMP Wed Jan 5 17:53:09 EST 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

PROBLEM DESCRIPTION AND STEPS TO REPRODUCE
Awstats.pl high cpu load daily resulting in VPS unresponsive

ACTUAL RESULT
VPS unresponsive with load caused by awstats.pl average 8~10 CPU load

EXPECTED RESULT

ANY ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Does anyone has this issue? or is it solved in 10.4.4?

 

[IgorG]

Yes, it was fixed in 10.4.4 MU.

 

[ryanz]

Still a problem on Plesk 10.4.4 Update #47

The problem with awstats.pl running for hours and creating very high server load is still a problem even on Still a problem on Plesk 10.4.4 Update #47

Has anyone found a solution to this?

 

[Sergey L]

Hi, awstats is generally quite heavy CPU consumer as written in Perl. This is by design and isn't a matter of bug of misconfiguration. I mean - it is normal for AWstats to cause high CPU load.

It wouldn't be much of impact for servers (VPSes) with fewer domains, but shared hosting servers may be impacted heavily. I would recommend switch all customers to "webalizer" tool at shared hosting servers.

While awstats produces prettier reports, webalizer consumes less resources. We will make it default setup for future versions - "webalizer" for shared hosting offers and "awstats" for personal use.

regards