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: Why is my httpd so busy? I have a simple Wordpress site on a VPS that isn't performing well. AWStats says: ~ 500k page views per month: ~ 50-80k unique visitors per month

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I have a simple Wordpress site on a VPS that isn't performing well.

AWStats says:


~ 500k page views per month:

~ 50-80k unique visitors per month

~ 500-800 GB bandwidth per month (lots of JPG, PNG images)


It runs on a VPS with 1GB ram. When I check top, httpd appears and disappears mostly in alternate refreshes. Sometimes 1 instance, sometimes 2 or 3.

top - 13:06:41 up 2 days, 12:02, 1 user, load average: 2.44, 2.80, 2.79
Tasks: 88 total, 1 running, 87 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 35.6%us, 9.1%sy, 0.0%ni, 55.0%id, 0.3%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 1048576k total, 431376k used, 617200k free, 0k buffers
Swap: 0k total, 0k used, 0k free, 76412k cached

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
8860 apache 20 0 366m 71m 3936 S 19.3 7.0 0:00.60 httpd
23046 apache 20 0 356m 59m 1868 S 14.0 5.8 4:49.68 httpd
19844 mysql 20 0 450m 72m 3888 S 4.0 7.1 1:35.55 mysqld
9998 root 20 0 50572 4512 2532 S 0.7 0.4 0:00.02 in.proftpd
538 root 20 0 5932 264 160 D 0.3 0.0 3:08.23 syslogd
1245 postfix 20 0 56304 1088 668 S 0.3 0.1 0:15.38 qmgr
2808 root 20 0 56488 2716 1884 S 0.3 0.3 0:00.11 smtp
9915 root 20 0 85296 5548 3052 S 0.3 0.5 0:00.02 in.proftpd
9920 root 20 0 85292 5544 3052 S 0.3 0.5 0:00.02 in.proftpd
9972 root 20 0 85284 5440 2964 S 0.3 0.5 0:00.03 in.proftpd
10013 root 20 0 50572 4480 2504 S 0.3 0.4 0:00.01 in.proftpd


I am using a stopwatch to time the responsiveness of the Wordpress web-admin-panel. Method: I click "Pages" and I wait for the browser spinner to stop, then I click "Dashboard" and I wait for the spinner to stop, and repeat between "Pages" and "Dashboard". My finding is that each complete load takes between 6 seconds and 14 seconds. This is worse than normal, right?

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