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This Dreamhost thread was started by karedas on 2009-12-22 12:30:10:

Post Reply? I’m having hard time understanding the ‘top’ of my VPS. top - 10:19:18 up 17 min, 1 user, load average: 0.14, 0.23, 0.10 Mem: 2361344k total, 1258252k used, 1103092k free, 0k buffers Swap: 921600k total, 0k used, 921600k free, 0k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 10913 root 20 0 139m 26m 20m S 0 1.2 0:00.52 apache2-ps19682 22743 karedas_ 20 0 87156 15m 8756 S 0 0.7 0:00.08 php5.cgi 22727 karedas_ 20 0 86980 15m 8788 S 0 0.7 0:00.13 php5.cgi 22736 karedas_ 20 0 86976 15m 8780 S 0 0.7 0:00.10 php5.cgi 22813 karedas_ 20 0 86980 15m 8752 S 0 0.7 0:00.10 php5.cgi 22746 karedas_ 20 0 86960 14m 8804 S 0 0.6 0:00.13 php5.cgi 22785 karedas_ 20 0 86632 14m 8820 S 0 0.6 0:00.12 php5.cgi 22707 karedas_ 20 0 86628 14m 8820 S 2 0.6 0:00.13 php5.cgi 22726 karedas_ 20 0 86632 14m 8812 S 0 0.6 0:00.14 php5.cgi 22687 karedas_ 20 0 86632 14m 8812 S 0 0.6 0:00.10 php5.cgi 22779 karedas_ 20 0 86628 14m 8820 S 0 0.6 0:00.14 php5.cgi 22761 karedas_ 20 0 86628 14m 8812 S 0 0.6 0:00.13 php5.cgi 22714 karedas_ 20 0 86632 14m 8796 S 0 0.6 0:00.12 php5.cgi 22797 karedas_ 20 0 86628 14m 8804 S 0 0.6 0:00.08 php5.cgi 22767 karedas_ 20 0 86632 14m 8796 S 0 0.6 0:00.11 php5.cgi 22766 karedas_ 20 0 86632 14m 8776 S 0 0.6 0:00.13 php5.cgi 22713 karedas_ 20 0 86632 14m 8764 S 0 0.6 0:00.10 php5.cgi 22735 karedas_ 20 0 86628 14m 8768 S 0 0.6 0:00.15 php5.cgi 22728 karedas_ 20 0 86628 14m 8768 S 2 0.6 0:00.11 php5.cgi 22784 karedas_ 20 0 86632 14m 8752 S 0 0.6 0:00.11 php5.cgi 22808 karedas_ 20 0 86632 14m 8752 S 0 0.6 0:00.11 php5.cgi 22847 dhapache 20 0 139m 8564 1704 S 0 0.4 0:00.01 apache2-ps19682 22709 dhapache 20 0 139m 8532 1716 S 0 0.4 0:00.01 apache2-ps19682 22695 dhapache 20 0 139m 8488 1732 S 0 0.4 0:00.01 apache2-ps19682 22760 dhapache 20 0 139m 8476 1744 S 2 0.4 0:00.01 apache2-ps19682 22741 dhapache 20 0 139m 8472 1716 S 0 0.4 0:00.02 apache2-ps19682 22792 dhapache 20 0 139m 8472 1740 S 0 0.4 0:00.00 apache2-ps19682 22848 dhapache 20 0 139m 8468 1728 S 0 0.4 0:00.00 apache2-ps19682 23153 dhapache 20 0 139m 8468 1740 S 0 0.4 0:00.00 apache2-ps19682 22781 dhapache 20 0 139m 8464 1740 S 0 0.4 0:00.00 apache2-ps19682 22816 dhapache 20 0 139m 8464 1740 S 0 0.4 0:00.00 apache2-ps19682 22845 dhapache 20 0 139m 8464 1720 S 0 0.4 0:00.01 apache2-ps19682 22729 dhapache 20 0 139m 8460 1740 S 0 0.4 0:00.00 apache2-ps19682 22731 dhapache 20 0 139m 8460 1716 S 0 0.4 0:00.02 apache2-ps19682 22782 dhapache 20 0 139m 8456 1716 S 0 0.4 0:00.01 apache2-ps19682 22843 dhapache 20 0 139m 8456 1728 S 0 0.4 0:00.01 apache2-ps19682 22711 dhapache 20 0 139m 8448 1716 S 0 0.4 0:00.00 apache2-ps19682 22780 dhapache 20 0 139m 8448 1716 S 0 0.4 0:00.00 apache2-ps19682 22694 dhapache 20 0 139m 8444 1716 S 0 0.4 0:00.00 apache2-ps19682 22744 dhapache 20 0 139m 8440 1712 S 0 0.4 0:00.01 apache2-ps19682 22814 dhapache 20 0 139m 8436 1716 S 0 0.4 0:00.00 apache2-ps19682 22834 dhapache 20 0 139m 8436 1740 S 0 0.4 0:00.00 apache2-ps19682 22836 dhapache 20 0 139m 8436 1712 S 0 0.4 0:00.00 apache2-ps19682 22748 dhapache 20 0 139m 8432 1728 S 0 0.4 0:00.00 apache2-ps19682 23145 dhapache 20 0 139m 8432 1720 S 0 0.4 0:00.00 apache2-ps19682 23154 dhapache 20 0 139m 8432 1716 S 0 0.4 0:00.01 apache2-ps19682 22762 dhapache 20 0 139m 8428 1712 S 0 0.4 0:00.00 apache2-ps19682 23291 dhapache 20 0 139m 8428 1704 S 0 0.4 0:00.00 apache2-ps19682 22825 dhapache 20 0 139m 8424 1716 S 0 0.4 0:00.01 apache2-ps19682 22826 dhapache 20 0 139m 8420 1712 S 0 0.4 0:00.00 apache2-ps19682 23147 dhapache 20 0 139m 8420 1708 S 0 0.4 0:00.00 apache2-ps19682 23159 dhapache 20 0 139m 8420 1716 S 0 0.4 0:00.00 apache2-ps19682 22739 dhapache 20 0 139m 8416 1712 S 0 0.4 0:00.00 apache2-ps19682 23091 dhapache 20 0 139m 8412 1716 S 0 0.4 0:00.00 apache2-ps19682 23134 dhapache 20 0 139m 8412 1712 S 0 0.4 0:00.00 apache2-ps19682 Are all these apache 2 normal ? At the moment of this top, the site is unreachable. The server is hosting a single domain that get an average 400k queries a day. The scripts memory usage (with memory_get_peak_usage) never goes higher than 3Mb (85% queries are under 1Mb) The server load often goes higher than 1Gb ram. What am I doing wrong ?

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