[cobalt-users] Server Resources?

["Chad Levin" <chadl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I've just purchased my Cobalt Raq3 web server at the beginning of July.
After the initial problems I have had with the server the thing has been
running really great up until now. Visitors of my site are reporting a lot
of errors when using a CGI-Script. According to the log file the programs
did not work because of a resource error. In order to see if the error
message was the correct one I went into the server via telnet and used the
top command to find this information.

8:03pm  up 4 days, 18:49,  1 user,  load average: 0.02, 0.04, 0.00
48 processes: 47 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states:  0.0% user,  1.5% system,  0.0% nice, 98.4% idle
Mem:  128048K av, 119696K used,   8352K free,  64588K shrd,  16396K buff
Swap: 131536K av,  13472K used, 118064K free                 58524K cached

What I would like to know is how is the server using all but 8MB of RAM when
this is a slow day in terms of page views. Also, why does the CPU say that
it is nearly idle yet errors still occur when I try and run a script?

Any advice is appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

Chad