Questions about top and ram

[Alwaysmefirst]

Hi!

Here is the top on my previous dedicated server. Is it possible it was an AMD 450 with 96 Mb ram? I only see 50M active and 14M Inact.
Also, does it mean 52.73% of the cpu was used by Mysql?

Olly

last pid: 22556; load averages: 0.77, 0.58, 0.79 up 36+12:24:42 12:45:12
65 processes: 3 running, 61 sleeping, 1 zombie
CPU states: 48.1% user, 0.0% nice, 50.0% system, 0.8% interrupt, 1.2% idle
Mem: 50M Active, 14M Inact, 21M Wired, 4444K Cache, 8349K Buf, 572K Free
Swap: 400M Total, 45M Used, 355M Free, 11% Inuse, 64K In

PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND
183 mysql 86 0 24768K 13816K RUN 137.5H 52.73% 52.73% mysqld
22340 boxewoof 2 0 4576K 3412K sbwait 0:05 1.12% 1.12% httpd
22518 boxewoof 2 0 4496K 3248K sbwait 0:01 0.64% 0.63% httpd
22426 boxewoof 2 0 4496K 3180K sbwait 0:01 0.59% 0.59% httpd
22546 boxewoof 2 0 4544K 3140K sbwait 0:00 0.67% 0.54% httpd
22445 boxewoof 2 0 4072K 2848K accept 0:01 0.34% 0.34% httpd
153 msql 2 0 4180K 472K select 11:03 0.00% 0.00% msql2d
223 root 2 0 1026M 344K select 10:07 0.00% 0.00% rmserver
186 root 2 0 1784K 344K select 4:54 0.00% 0.00% sshd1
206 root 2 0 2880K 272K select 4:02 0.00% 0.00% httpd
86 root 2 0 824K 296K select 0:33 0.00% 0.00% syslogd
124 root 2 0 1304K 432K select 0:32 0.00% 0.00% sendmail
120 root 10 0 1000K 176K nanslp 0:20 0.00% 0.00% cron
117 root 2 0 900K 120K select 0:15 0.00% 0.00% inetd
244 root 2 0 2304K 812K sbwait 0:14 0.00% 0.00% perl
177 root 2 0 1600K 408K select 0:05 0.00% 0.00% snmpd

[chrispadfield]

Mem: 50M Active, 14M Inact, 21M Wired, 4444K Cache, 8349K Buf, 572K Free

add them all up, it is 96MB

yes, you have 1 big mysql process running. Not sure what it is but you don't need to worry about it if it dosen't last long. If it is backuping up or sending a newsletter etc then it is very normal.

[Alwaysmefirst]

Thank you Chris for your explanation :)
I had Vb 1.15 with around 50 people online and also several people using phpmychat the day I did that top. It had an old version of mysql too. It was hosted by Virtualis where ram is expensive, this is why I only had 96 Mb and mysql was always at around 40%.