2011/3/17 <m.roth at 5-cent.us>: > 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 > <snip> >> 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? machine looks openvz virtualized container, it requires tuning to limit settings. -- Eero