> >> I'm NOT running mailman, spam assassin, or vsftpd, but could those be > >> eating 100MB? That seems unlikely. > > > > spam assassin can be very expensive, 100mb are imho no problem to eat with > > it. > > > >> Would moving some services elsewhere help? E.g., moving the ftp server? > > > > i would look on httpd and spam services first. > > There was a suspicion at some time that trac could begin to eat cpu > cycles without reason. An upgrade could help.
it may be that trac go insane from time to time. but what i have seen last weeks via top lead me to the conviction that swapping is the problem. looking at the RES memory usage, the main consumers are these. what if we start by running less childerns of spamd? 59m 2:32.53 spamd 57m 0:52.08 spamd 37m 1:48.72 spamd 9m 0:04.65 httpd 9548 0:03.56 httpd 9384 0:01.85 httpd 9340 26:15.48 named 9212 0:00.66 httpd 7620 0:05.52 svnserve 4176 0:00.78 ntpd 3572 0:00.06 sendmail 3308 0:00.89 httpd 3156 0:00.04 sendmail 3140 1:30.17 mysqld 2136 0:46.37 python pavel
