[Imc-tech] The Server Slows Again

[Daniel S. Lewart]

Mike, et al,

> I have noticed the website loading slowly again today. As I write this,
> it is not responding. Probably time for a reboot when someone gets a
> chance.

Instead of rebooting, I restarted Apache.
Below is what "top" showed before.
Afterwards apache and rsync are using CPU.

Cheers,
Dan
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top - 14:44:12 up 8 days, 14:25,  4 users,  load average: 14.40, 13.56, 13.87
Tasks: 184 total,  15 running, 169 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  90.4% user,   9.1% system,   0.6% nice,   0.0% idle
Mem:    646016k total,   639368k used,     6648k free,    65828k buffers
Swap:   754996k total,   461036k used,   293960k free,   184140k cached

   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
28726 www-data  20   0 35040  12m 6264 R  9.7  1.9   5:32.43 apache
29126 www-data  20   0 35088  12m 6272 R  9.7  1.9   4:36.60 apache
28906 www-data  18   0 37568  14m 6324 R  9.1  2.3   5:14.07 apache
30283 jeychane  18   0  1460 1460 1032 R  9.1  0.2   0:03.85 in.qpopper
29533 amavis    16   0 51540  38m  12m S  8.4  6.1   0:29.08 amavisd-new
23925 www-data  16   0 34592  11m  11m R  7.8  1.8  35:26.64 apache
27658 www-data  20   0 35152  12m 6284 R  7.8  1.9   9:10.33 apache
28373 www-data  14   0 37328  14m 6276 R  7.8  2.3   6:34.19 apache
28380 www-data  14   0 34948  11m 6128 R  7.8  1.9   6:33.00 apache
28388 www-data  14   0 37364  14m 6188 R  7.8  2.3   7:00.07 apache
27712 www-data  14   0 35456  12m 6292 R  6.1  2.0   8:27.11 apache
28157 www-data  14   0 34928  11m 6252 R  5.8  1.9   8:30.85 apache
30327 amavis    19   0  3496 3496 1904 R  3.6  0.5   0:00.11 pyzor
28759 amavis    11   0 55936  42m  12m S  3.2  6.8   0:59.18 amavisd-new
30310 lewart    18   0  1112 1112  832 R  2.9  0.2   0:01.07 top
24255 root      15  10 25696 2224 1864 S  1.0  0.3   0:20.88 rsync
   254 root       9   0     0    0    0 S  0.3  0.0   5:16.97 kjournald
22443 root      15  10 25416  17m  17m R  0.3  2.8   0:07.47 rsync
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