Memory Problem - server always crashes.

I have a virtual dedicated server with 512MB RAM and 2GB Bursted RAM.

When my website gets busy, the server crashes and I have to restart the server to get my site back online. However, this is only temporary and happens again every few hours.

I contacted my host’s support department who said it was a memory problem. I checked the “top” command in SSH, and saw that mysql was using the most memory.

I think it maybe something to do with my my.cnf file configuration. Can someone please take a look: This is the file.

[mysqld]
datadir=/var/lib/mysql
socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
max_connections=700
max_user_connections=500
interactive_timeout=20
wait_timeout=20
connect_timeout=6
thread_cache_size=128
key_buffer=16M
join_buffer=1M
max_allowed_packet=64M
table_cache=1024
record_buffer=1M
sort_buffer_size=2M
read_buffer_size=2M
max_connect_errors=1000

Try number of CPU’s*2 for thread_concurrency

thread_concurrency=4
myisam_sort_buffer_size=64M
#log-bin
server-id=1

[safe_mysqld]
err-log=/var/log/mysqld.log
pid-file=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.pid
open_files_limit=8192

[mysqldump]
quick
max_allowed_packet=16M

[mysql]
no-auto-rehash
#safe-updates

[isamchk]
key_buffer=32M
sort_buffer=32M
read_buffer=16M
write_buffer=16M

[myisamchk]
key_buffer=32M
sort_buffer=32M
read_buffer=16M
write_buffer=16M

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

I don’t see anything wrong with your config. It might be the queries you are running.