Our web server suddenly has been giving us load issues. After I restart Apache the load stays low for a few hours up to a day or so then its back up to around 3.0 until I restart Apache again. Any suggestions on tracking down what is causing this?
Thanks!
Chris Edwards
top - 20:15:05 up 19 days, 10:59, 1 user, load average: 2.11, 2.17, 2.47
Tasks: 532 total, 6 running, 525 sleeping, 0 stopped, 1 zombie
Cpu(s): 11.5%us, 0.4%sy, 0.0%ni, 88.1%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 32842656k total, 13185872k used, 19656784k free, 6143740k buffers
Swap: 1048568k total, 0k used, 1048568k free, 3515252k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
19089 apache 20 0 1912m 1.5g 6584 R 99.6 4.9 71:01.53 /usr/sbin/httpd
21136 apache 20 0 392m 55m 5736 R 95.0 0.2 0:03.45 /usr/sbin/httpd
21139 apache 20 0 374m 38m 5808 S 40.5 0.1 0:04.91 /usr/sbin/httpd
21124 apache 20 0 389m 51m 5948 R 38.9 0.2 0:03.15 /usr/sbin/httpd
21111 apache 20 0 371m 35m 5964 S 18.8 0.1 0:01.22 /usr/sbin/httpd
21127 apache 20 0 375m 39m 5832 S 17.8 0.1 0:01.66 /usr/sbin/httpd
21128 apache 20 0 374m 38m 5792 S 16.2 0.1 0:01.56 /usr/sbin/httpd
21110 apache 20 0 374m 38m 5848 S 15.9 0.1 0:01.02 /usr/sbin/httpd
21113 apache 20 0 374m 38m 5836 S 15.9 0.1 0:02.16 /usr/sbin/httpd
21077 apache 20 0 379m 43m 6408 S 11.0 0.1 0:07.22 /usr/sbin/httpd
21101 apache 20 0 384m 49m 6988 R 5.8 0.2 0:04.47 /usr/sbin/httpd
21112 apache 20 0 374m 38m 5956 R 2.6 0.1 0:01.61 /usr/sbin/httpd