Why are my servers proccess so high? I have another server more active than this one with 400 less proccesses that uses more bandwidth and has more sites on it... Here's the output when running top:

3:16pm up 3 days, 19:25, 1 user, load average: 1.46, 1.51, 1.41
561 processes: 560 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 3.6% user, 23.4% system, 0.3% nice, 72.5% idle
Mem: 524288K av, 301856K used, 222432K free, 54036K shrd, 0K buff
Swap: 1048576K av, 25076K used, 1023500K free 124456K cached

PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
14333 root 11 0 1512 1512 852 R 23.7 0.2 0:14 top
14418 apache 0 0 20288 19M 19216 S 0.9 3.8 0:00 httpd
14402 apache 0 0 20292 19M 19212 S 0.7 3.8 0:00 httpd
14340 apache 0 0 20328 19M 19160 S 0.5 3.8 0:00 httpd
3433 root 1 0 332 316 240 S 0.1 0.0 92:08 syslogd
5332 root 1 0 18688 18M 18124 S 0.1 3.5 20:50 proftpd
12735 mysql 10 10 67832 47M 2244 S N 0.1 9.1 0:00 mysqld
13971 mysql 10 10 67832 47M 2244 S N 0.1 9.1 0:00 mysqld
14337 apache 0 0 20316 19M 19156 S 0.1 3.8 0:00 httpd
14398 apache 0 0 20304 19M 19168 S 0.1 3.8 0:00 httpd
14408 apache 0 0 19868 19M 19092 S 0.1 3.7 0:00 httpd
1 root 0 0 104 60 36 S 0.0 0.0 0:02 init
4376 root 0 0 68 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 klogd
4442 daemon 0 0 128 52 44 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 atd
4473 root 0 0 1656 1656 716 S 0.0 0.3 11:15 snmpd
4492 named 0 0 2168 1936 1432 S 0.0 0.3 0:00 named
4495 named 0 0 2168 1936 1432 S 0.0 0.3 0:01 named
4496 named 0 0 2168 1936 1432 S 0.0 0.3 0:00 named
4497 named 0 0 2168 1936 1432 S 0.0 0.3 0:00 named
4498 named 0 0 2168 1936 1432 S 0.0 0.3 0:00 named
4512 root 0 0 456 340 272 S 0.0 0.0 0:18 sshd
4529 root 0 0 204 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 sshd
4558 root 0 0 492 356 268 S 0.0 0.0 1:06 xinetd
4576 root 0 0 188 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 safe_mysqld
4597 mysql 10 10 67832 47M 2244 S N 0.0 9.1 0:24 mysqld
4599 mysql 10 10 67832 47M 2244 S N 0.0 9.1 0:03 mysqld

Anyone know how I can find out why there are so many proccesses???

Check how many processes of mysql is running('myadmin processlist' is the commnad). Check the apache logs.

It says "command not found" I'm running an Ensim server with 7.2 if that make a difference...

Its a typo

mysqladmin processlist

;)

That's linux for ya.. Get BSD. I have shell servers running that many procs plus some and still under 0.

You can also use:

ps aux | grep mysqld
ps aux | grep httpd

This will filter out the processes for the individual services running.

pstree, netstat, lsof, top, ps, etc. will all help find any information you probably will need for any task.

Originally posted by DD-SNC
That's linux for ya.. Get BSD. I have shell servers running that many procs plus some and still under 0.

Linux has nothing to do with it. How does a shell server compare to a production server? Do you even know how many clients he has on the box? You can't just switch the OS of the server in a snap (software and hardware compatibilities). I see that switching to BSD is your solution for everything.

If my keyboard breaks I'll make sure to switch to BSD.

BSD does have better process control and handles things a little better. However, I agree it's not Linux at fault here just because of a high load, and comparing them, they aren't that much different, even if one might be a little better in my opinion, the other isn't so much worse that it really matters.

23.4% system vs 3.6% user CPU usually indicates a lot of context switching or hard drive access (for IDE). You may need to increase the Min/MaxSpareServers values in your httpd.conf to reduce the number of processes Apache has to fork per minute.