Posted by Gilles Ganault on 01/07/08 06:32

On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 16:04:40 -0800 (PST), faulkes
<michael.behrens@gmail.com> wrote:
>This looks like the hallmark of a virtual server, depending on what
>the host is serving or doing though I would be concerned at the
>number of processes.

Indeed, it's running on shared virtual server. Aren't each account
isolated from each other? I find it surprising to be able to see the
total number of processes running on the host, accross all accounts.

>> PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
>> 10685 ze-card 19 19 984 736 724 R N 93.3 0.0 5671m webalizer
>
>That would be your primary cpu hog at the current time and considering
>the length of time it's been there, probably on a rampage.

Webalizer is running as Nice, so I didn't think it'd be a problem, but
I'll tell him to restart it, and see how it goes.

>467 processes? I'd sure like to see what count is on those particular
>processes (httpd, etc.. etc..)

What do you mean by "count"?

>While it could be all three, I would say check out the processlist
>first and that would likely be your first clue.

Since I posted the top processes above, do you mean running "ps -edf"
or "ps -aux"?

Thank you.

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