Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 18:15:14 -0400 From: Linda Messerschmidt <linda.messerschmidt@gmail.com> To: John Almberg <jalmberg@identry.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: reducing size of apache instances Message-ID: <237c27100909111515s70310092ua980038b3f16983e@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4AAAB124.8050908@identry.com> References: <4AA9BCF0.6040003@identry.com> <h8dek8$tsa$1@ger.gmane.org> <4AAA577A.8070103@identry.com> <h8dq3n$4pi$1@ger.gmane.org> <4AAA8D60.4000300@identry.com> <237c27100909111105m4ab6fa37v1fa9019d2cd94d2@mail.gmail.com> <4AAAA820.4020407@identry.com> <6201873e0909111303k472b20c2t43d9a635fa0151ee@mail.gmail.com> <4AAAB124.8050908@identry.com>
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On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 4:20 PM, John Almberg <jalmberg@identry.com> wrote: > I would have thought, but some times it really gets slow and I'm trying to > figure out why. When bogged down, the load averages are low. The main thing > that looks out of whack is swap space, which seems to never go below 7%, but > sometimes gets up into the 20%-30% range. When it gets that high, the server > slows to a crawl. In this case you don't want to look at processes with big RES, you want to find processes with a big difference between RES and SIZE and/or the ones with flat-out largest SIZE. Try sorting top by SIZE and see what bubbles up. (Ignore rpc.statd if it's running.)
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