Dan wrote:
> 
> USER      PID %CPU %MEM   VSZ  RSS  TT  STAT STARTED      TIME COMMAND
> root        2 14.2  0.0     0    0  ??  DL   Tue11AM   4:35.33  (pagedaemon)
> root        3 12.7  0.0     0    0  ??  DL   Tue11AM   1:56.25  (vmdaemon)
> 
> Cpu kept hitting high load averages on machines for about 1 min periods on
> some machines on some apache servers. I wrote a script to catch the
> offending processes and it seems to be these ones. Ideas on why they would
> be taking that much cpu?

Generally speaking, it probably means that you are swapping
a lot because you are running more programs than you have
RAM available to run.

If you add RAM, or run fewer programs, this will go away.

-- Terry

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