well, here you go:
Code:
top - 16:07:39 up 4:21, 1 user, load average: 0.46, 0.36, 0.29
Tasks: 137 total, 1 running, 136 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 2.5%us, 0.6%sy, 0.0%ni, 95.8%id, 0.8%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.3%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 4047116k total, 3594480k used, 452636k free, 116112k buffers
Swap: 2104496k total, 0k used, 2104496k free, 1662904k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
2077 web9 20 0 255m 76m 25m S 4 1.9 1:15.42 php-cgi
2794 mysql 20 0 360m 190m 5276 S 2 4.8 5:57.91 mysqld
9102 root 20 0 18956 1324 944 R 1 0.0 0:46.86 top
1 root 20 0 10316 748 620 S 0 0.0 0:01.48 init
2 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd
3 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.02 migration/0
4 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.06 ksoftirqd/0
5 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/0
6 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.02 migration/1
7 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.02 ksoftirqd/1
8 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/1
9 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.48 events/0
10 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.52 events/1
11 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 khelper
46 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kblockd/0
47 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.04 kblockd/1
49 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpid
50 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpi_notify
144 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 ksuspend_usbd
150 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 khubd
153 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kseriod
201 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 pdflush
202 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:02.58 pdflush
203 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kswapd0
204 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 aio/0
205 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 aio/1
398 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 ata/0
399 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 ata/1
400 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 ata_aux
404 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.04 scsi_eh_0
406 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.04 scsi_eh_1
414 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.02 scsi_eh_2
416 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.02 scsi_eh_3
795 postfix 20 0 38904 2288 1792 S 0 0.1 0:00.00 pickup
944 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 md0_raid1
952 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:08.70 md1_raid1
987 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:10.76 kjournald
looks a lot better now. no swapping yet.
I had used suPhp for a couple of the smaller sites as I read in another thread that using fastcgi for low traffic sites is a waste...
I'll monitor it for another couple of days to see if it continuous to behave well