RE: [cobalt-users] CPU is overloaded - Help

["Dan" <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>
> ps aux |sort -nr -k3 |head -10
>
> that will show you the top ten process sorted by CPU usage. :)
>
Trying the above after receiving the "needs more memory" email from the
server and I see:

root     26769  0.7  4.5  4960  1412  ?  S   09:15   0:02
/usr/sbin/ahttpd -d /
httpd    26899  0.3  3.3  5396  1036  ?  S   09:20   0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
httpd    26902  0.2  3.3  5396  1036  ?  S   09:20   0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
httpd    26900  0.2  3.3  5396  1036  ?  S   09:20   0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
httpd    26898  0.2  3.3  5396  1036  ?  S   09:20   0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
httpd    26897  0.2  3.3  5396  1036  ?  S   09:20   0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
httpd    26892  0.2  3.3  5396  1036  ?  S   09:20   0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
httpd    26891  0.2  3.3  5396  1036  ?  S   09:20   0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
admin    26836  0.2  3.3  2416  1036  p0 S   09:18   0:00 -bash
root     26835  0.1  2.4  2628   756  ?  S N 09:18   0:00 in.telnetd

top was showing:

  9:20am  up 38 days,  4:04,  1 user,  load average: 0.31, 0.38, 0.49
56 processes: 55 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states:  0.3% user,  2.7% system,  0.0% nice, 96.9% idle
Mem:   31064K av,  24512K used,   6552K free,  22268K shrd,    420K buff
Swap: 130748K av,  12208K used, 118540K free                  5492K cached

Anyone have any idea what is going on that would cause the server to say it
needs more memory? This rarely happens, but when it does, it always seems to
be about the same time of the morning. 9 - 9:30AM ET. Got two messages, one
at 9:15 and another sent at 9:16.
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Dan Kriwitsky