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Some operations slow on LAMP appliance
Hello,
I've been running the TK Lamp appliance on VirtualBox for the past month or so and I was quite happy with it, until a few days ago when I noticed the following:
The appliance takes about 3-4 times longer to start (until the blue screen with administration details is shown).
After it has started, the first time I open the webmin console, it takes about 30-40seconds for the login page to load, but it works super fast afterwards.
If I try to log in through SSH, it takes a considerably longer time for the server to respond asking for a password than it did before.
As far as I know, I haven't done anything in the past few days that might influence this. The only thing I remember doing is cleaning out three giant log files which were 3GB each. I'm running a Windows 7 host, and the PC has 8GB of ram and a quad core Intel Sandy Bridge processor.
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When was your last snapshot ?
Reply 1Actually, after making a
Reply 2Actually, after making a second snapshot, the whole virtual machine reset itself to the original (imported) state. It appears that there's a bug within virtualbox with regards to some imported appliances.
I subsequently installed a Turnkey LAMP appliance using the installation ISO and this seemed to function considerably better (in terms of snapshots) but the problem persisted. From the moment I click on 'connect' on PUTTY, and the time I am prompted for a password - it takes about 10-15 seconds.
I am guessing that it may be a network setting issue, since a fully clean reinstall did not solve it.
v2.x & v3.x are known to work well with TKL
Reply 3But I'm not sure about v4.x. I have had some issues with a couple of v4.x versions, although different to yours. I would suggest rolling back to an earlier stable version (assuming you are using v4.x?)
Your virtual machine may be accumulating diff files which will get progressively larger over time. You may want to take a fresh snapshot and see if that helps.