I am running apache server and my top gives me the following output. is this really bad??/ top - 22:43:05 up 26 days, 7:43, 1 user, load average: 0.02, 0.07, 0.08 Tasks: 261 total, 2 running, 259 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 2.0% us, 2.3% sy, 0.0% ni, 93.5% id, 2.0% wa, 0.3% hi, 0.0% si Mem: 1027556k total, 1024212k used, 3344k free, 5656k buffers Swap: 2040244k total, 1472k used, 2038772k free, 649512k cached
All of your RAM is already occupied without any load on the server. Looks like you server has a lot of open files cached in RAM ("649512k cached"). Also, you can run this this command to figure out if any process is eating much of the RAM. ps auxf Code (markup):