[users@httpd] Huge load average

[Richard correia <ri...@ugamsolutions.com>]

Hi ,

I am having a freeBSD system with Apache as a webserver

My server is running very slow, following is the output of "top".
I was crazy when I looked at the load average. 

Can anybody tell me what could be the possible reason behind such huge
load.

I am not running huge scripts. Simple 4/5 pages sites are hosted on this
server.

Is this happening because of keepAlive field ? Is there any other tool
which will help me in identifying the problem ?

Sincerely,
Rich


last pid: 26521;  load averages: 185.18, 183.22, 179.86 up 0+05:06:40
04:37:04
252 processes: 186 running, 64 sleeping, 2 zombie
CPU states: 77.7% user,  0.0% nice, 22.3% system,  0.0% interrupt,  
0.0% idle
Mem: 162M Active, 14M Inact, 48M Wired, 13M Cache, 35M Buf, 880K Free
Swap: 497M Total, 56K Used, 497M Free

   PID USERNAME        PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE    TIME   WCPU    
CPU COMMAND
21257 nobody           96    0 10288K  6724K RUN      1:56  0.10%  0.10%
httpd
24033 nobody           96    0 12176K  8676K RUN      0:49  0.10%  0.10%
httpd
25046 nobody           96    0 10244K  5144K RUN      0:29  0.10%  0.10%
httpd
  2193 nobody           96    0 10492K  6960K RUN      2:45  0.05%
0.05% httpd
21183 nobody           96    0 10084K  6376K RUN      2:41  0.05%  0.05%
httpd
21792 nobody           96    0 10248K  6852K RUN      2:19  0.05%  0.05%
httpd
22406 nobody           96    0 10100K  6380K RUN      1:55  0.05%  0.05%
httpd
23100 nobody           96    0 10236K  6620K RUN      1:33  0.05%  0.05%
httpd
23346 nobody           96    0 10464K  6896K RUN      1:28  0.05%  0.05%
httpd
23471 nobody           96    0 10172K  6560K RUN      1:18  0.05%  0.05%
httpd
23414 nobody           96    0 10236K  6620K RUN      1:06  0.05%  0.05%
httpd
23442 nobody           96    0 10520K  6952K RUN      1:04  0.05%  0.05%
httpd
23843 nobody           96    0 10464K  6900K RUN      0:57  0.05%  0.05%
httpd
  528 mysql            96    0 46624K 19528K RUN      0:56  0.05%  0.05%
mysqld
24364 nobody           96    0 10084K  6376K RUN      0:44  0.05% 0.05%
httpd
24432 nobody           96    0 10084K  6376K RUN      0:43  0.05% 0.05%
httpd
23844 nobody           96    0 10212K  6640K RUN      0:42  0.05% 0.05%
httpd


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