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Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 18:15:14 -0400
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From: Linda Messerschmidt <linda.messerschmidt@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: reducing size of apache instances
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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.)