Posted by faulkes on 01/07/08 16:51

On Jan 7, 1:32 am, Gilles Ganault <nos...@nospam.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 16:04:40 -0800 (PST), faulkes
>
> <michael.behr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
>

Yes, they are but all of those isolations are still bound by the # of
physical CPU's the *real* machine has. So if your hosting provider
is running 6:1 (6 virts to 1 real cpu) or greater, and lets face it,
many of them do, you have a problem which is beyond your control
(short
of a dedicated server or moving to a provider with a better ratio)

> What do you mean by "count"?

# of apache children
# other children of another application

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

ps -ef | grep httpd | wc -l
ps -ef | grep otherproc | wc -l

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