Number of processes suddenly much higher
For some reason the number of processes on my server has nearly doubled over the weekend, and the entire server is noticeably slow as a result. What could have caused this to happen? It's a Dual Xeon 2.0 with 1Gb of RAM.
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2:19pm up 19 days, 11 min, 1 user, load average: 2.21, 2.13, 1.76 473 processes: 470 sleeping, 1 running, 2 zombie, 0 stopped CPU0 states: 24.5% user, 34.3% system, 0.0% nice, 40.2% idle CPU1 states: 36.3% user, 3.0% system, 0.0% nice, 60.2% idle CPU2 states: 32.2% user, 3.2% system, 0.0% nice, 64.1% idle CPU3 states: 29.1% user, 2.2% system, 0.0% nice, 68.2% idle Mem: 1033780K av, 1020540K used, 13240K free, 0K shrd, 8496K buff Swap: 2048276K av, 372584K used, 1675692K free 256104K cached PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND 11580 nobody 9 0 11436 9.8M 6548 S 19.5 0.9 0:12 httpd 25183 root 14 0 2128 2128 1628 R 15.8 0.2 0:42 top 26542 nobody 9 0 12016 10M 8956 S 11.6 1.0 3:09 httpd 18203 nobody 10 0 11788 10M 8236 S 7.9 0.9 0:45 httpd 21350 nobody 9 0 12388 10M 6816 S 7.0 1.0 0:15 httpd 25335 nobody 9 0 12692 10M 8076 S 6.9 1.0 3:18 httpd 7822 nobody 9 0 12228 10M 7760 S 6.9 1.0 3:25 httpd 23426 nobody 9 0 12340 10M 7352 S 6.0 1.0 0:45 httpd 17231 nobody 9 0 11820 10M 7184 S 5.5 1.0 2:01 httpd 26189 nobody 9 0 12084 10M 7664 S 5.0 1.0 3:19 httpd 3466 nobody 9 0 11468 9.8M 7180 S 4.7 0.9 0:35 httpd 25841 nobody 9 0 11608 10M 8548 S 4.7 0.9 0:25 httpd 19165 nobody 9 0 11600 9.9M 6740 S 4.3 0.9 0:10 httpd 11275 nobody 9 0 11752 10M 8100 S 3.7 1.0 1:28 httpd 19305 nobody 9 0 11740 10M 6828 S 3.0 0.9 0:30 httpd 19924 nobody 9 0 11644 9M 7264 S 3.0 0.9 0:22 httpd 23447 nobody 9 0 8284 6760 5948 S 2.8 0.6 0:00 httpd 20325 nobody 9 0 11728 10M 8724 S 2.5 0.9 1:35 httpd 16400 nobody 9 0 11728 10M 7096 S 2.3 0.9 1:51 httpd 20332 nobody 9 0 11724 9.8M 9928 S 2.3 0.9 1:17 httpd 16255 nobody 9 0 12364 10M 8868 S 1.8 1.0 2:00 httpd 13005 nobody 9 0 12068 10M 7328 S 1.8 1.0 1:42 httpd 24608 mysql 9 0 169M 71M 53640 S 1.5 7.1 0:16 mysqld 9825 mysql 9 0 169M 71M 53640 S 1.3 7.1 0:14 mysqld 12272 nobody 9 0 11720 10M 7076 S 1.3 0.9 1:29 httpd 12658 nobody 9 0 11864 10M 7112 S 1.1 1.0 0:11 httpd 26815 mysql 9 0 169M 71M 53636 S 1.0 7.1 0:14 mysqld 11922 nobody 9 0 11632 9.9M 7940 S 1.0 0.9 1:28 httpd 29634 nobody 9 0 11512 9.9M 9972 S 1.0 0.9 0:21 httpd 5761 nobody 9 0 11760 9064 7112 S 1.0 0.8 0:14 httpd 17578 nobody 9 0 12720 10M 7480 S 0.8 1.0 2:08 httpd 19506 nobody 9 0 12072 10M 7080 S 0.8 1.0 2:07 httpd 5605 nobody 11 0 11788 10M 7108 S 0.8 1.0 1:59 httpd 24795 mysql 9 0 169M 71M 53640 S 0.8 7.1 0:02 mysqld 21366 nobody 9 0 11888 10M 7168 S 0.8 1.0 1:39 httpd 10259 nobody 10 0 11748 9.9M 8128 S 0.8 0.9 1:31 httpd 4994 nobody 9 0 11924 10M 7356 S 0.8 1.0 0:57 httpd 16923 nobody 9 0 11588 9.9M 8108 S 0.8 0.9 0:34 httpd 16580 mysql 9 0 169M 71M 53640 S 0.6 7.1 0:15 mysqld