please tell me which are crappy processes that should be killed in order to free up some valuable ram?? (i dont know what those "named" processes do ) thanks
named process are DNS related. Well, you should consider upgrading your server memory as you should not be killing any process listed above
Linux uses as much RAM as possible. It is not like Windows where you need a ton of free resources at any point in time. In Linux you do not need to worry about memory usage until you start using the SWAP space. This is hard drive space that has been allocated to be treated as memory. This is extremely slow and should be avoided. I would suggest optimizing BIND which is the DNS server with the process name of named. You have quite a few forked processes that I do not believe should be needed. A tip to show the memory usage better in top is just to hit the letter M. This will sort the list by the memory usage. If you are looking for process usage hit P.
38M Free Ram, 23M in buffers, that seems fine with a max of 256m ram. if you realy wanna try to cut some ram, you could try unloading some uneeded modules in lighttpd or php. (that would lower the memory footprint per instance).
Yes he is fine and no need to upgrade RAM Beware that when you see server RAM usage from #top - you have to add "Buffered" memory value to the free memory You will find the actual used RAM through WHM / server status As long as you don't use SWAP memory then you are fine with memory