Troubleshoot slow server issue

A process in Apache on our Linux server is sporadically eating up the ram and causing the server to swap space on the hard drive. This causes our pages to go slow. This is an intermittent load problem that spikes up to 100% of server capacity. ## Deliverables 1. Apache has a process that keeps running and using up available ram causing the disk drive to swap out.? ? [login to view URL] in the server load cause it to use up 100% of available ram.? 3. I need you to use a monitoring program to monitor the processes apache is running and identify the memory hog. Then fix the cause. I hired one programmer to work on this.? His notes are attached.? He felt the problem was in the mysql database.? ? 4. It appears to me the problem is simply a program running that is taking up all our 1 gig of memory and causing it to use the disk swap to supply additional memory needs. ? This has only been going on 1 week, so I know the server has sufficient ram.? 5. You are quoting on a complete fix, not just doing 1 thing that might possibly solve the problem.? 6. The DELIVERABLE is the server running efficiently without spikes in the load, all pages loading swiftly without page errors. ? I don't want a partial deliverable or just a small part of the problem fixed. ? I want the spiking process identified and eliminated. You should be able to use software to view the apache processes, find the one that is spiking our load to 100% and then take action to fix, repair or remove that process. Here are a few of the sites: [login to view URL] [login to view URL] Those may or may not come up for you, depending on if the server load is spiking at the time.