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Apache overload, how fix it

Posted on February 23, 2017
Stew

By Stew

Hello i running a droplet with 2 GB Memory / 40 GB Disk / NYC3 - Ubuntu 14.04.4 x64 with few wordpress websites on it.

In this days, through new graph mod, i discovered an overload actvity in Top Processes tab:

CPU apache2 1511.22%

Memory apache2 104.40%

By the way all site, actually working fine, any help about my issues? Thanks a lot for any reply!



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This question was answered by @hansen:

That would probably be a good thing to do. And I would recommend replacing sendmail with Postfix. It’s a drop-in-replacement, but is much better at handling queues. Just make sure you don’t accidentally setup an open relay, meaning your server can be used to spam the rest of the world (probably like it’s doing right now). https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-and-configure-postfix-as-a-send-only-smtp-server-on-ubuntu-16-04

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