Dave Stevens wrote:
Periodically my ssh access and http access slow dramatically and I get out of memory when trying to do rudimentary stuff like ls. I've been advised by
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is fine. It takes several minutes before the site is really usable. I now have 22 apache instances out of 66 total processes, which seems excessive.
One site hosted, running drupal 7, 1.5G RAM lots of disk spece, two cores, Xeon based host. I don't know if this is an apache issue or CentOS related or what.
Ideas? Debugging I can do?
For one thing, I'd strongly urge you to add at least another .5G RAM, if not 2.5G. Second, look at the apache configuration, and see how many workers it can use - you might want to lower the limit.
Also, what's your connection to the 'Net like, and how heavily is your website being hit?
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