php-cgi cpu usage is super high

Posted by Ryan Thompson on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by Ryan Thompson
Published on 2012-06-21T01:37:40Z Indexed on 2012/06/21 3:18 UTC
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I am getting constantly high and wildly fluctuating CPU usage % for php-cgi commands as seen via "top" on my Centos server..

I have a server density account and it seems that this is a common trend:

User - PID - CPU % - MEM % - VSZ - RSS - TT - Stat - Started - Time - Command

500 - 6389 - 22.4 - 3 - 271136 - 32380 - ? - S - 20:26 - 0:40 - /usr/bin/php-cgi

Seems there are about 6 or so of those records in my processes list at any given check-in.

Any ideas what's causing this? I have fast_cgi installed and the module is loading.. Not sure why it isn't handling this though.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Ryan

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