I just realized I posted this in the wrong forum.

At any rate, here's the issue...

privvmpages out of control
A while back I had an issue with Dr Web and SpamAssasin. In the end I simply disabled the two processes to get the VPS running somewhat normally (reinstalling the two did nothing and at the time I didn't feel up to reinstalling the entire VPS). Now, I have an issue with privvmpages. It's out of control.

Does anyone have any suggestions regarding what to look for to try and get my crazy memory allocation manageable?

Here's what top, sorted by memory usage, has to say. They're all apache processes, which I assume is normal...

PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME CPU COMMAND
3687 apache 9 0 12564 9.8M 6408 S 0.0 0.9 0:09 1 httpd
8660 apache 9 0 12360 9848 7064 S 0.0 0.9 0:10 0 httpd
3691 apache 9 0 12344 9808 9596 S 0.0 0.9 0:11 1 httpd
31938 apache 9 0 12432 9764 9340 S 0.0 0.9 0:11 1 httpd
22623 apache 9 0 12280 9728 8396 S 0.0 0.9 0:09 0 httpd
3686 apache 9 0 12008 9500 7680 S 0.0 0.9 0:11 0 httpd
19199 apache 9 0 12004 9488 9308 S 0.0 0.9 0:11 1 httpd
18074 apache 9 0 11936 9364 8768 S 0.0 0.9 0:12 0 httpd
3694 apache 9 0 11952 9364 9200 S 0.0 0.9 0:10 1 httpd
3679 apache 9 0 11860 9344 7708 S 0.0 0.9 0:10 1 httpd
24011 apache 9 0 14464 9340 8380 S 0.0 0.9 0:13 0 httpd
31939 apache 9 0 11824 9256 9096 S 0.0 0.8 0:09 0 httpd
22234 apache 9 0 14088 9092 7992 S 0.0 0.8 0:08 1 httpd
22247 apache 9 0 11628 9064 7184 S 0.0 0.8 0:08 1 httpd
3693 apache 9 0 11708 9060 8588 S 0.0 0.8 0:10 0 httpd

Hello,

Well, maybe you've a DDoS running or someting making severall connections to apache.
If you type 'top', you can see any mysql process?

Try this too: netstat -anp |grep :80 | awk '{print $5}' | cut -d: -f1 | sort -n -r

See if you've many ips listed here. If yes, instal DOS-Deflate:

# wget http://www.inetbase.com/scripts/ddos/install.ddos
# sh install.ddos


Reply my questions and i can help you a litle more.


SL

well, fwiw, I had a very similar problem recently. Fortunately, the only recent change had been the addition of additional mod_security conf files from gotroot.com. Disabling the ip blacklist files solved the problem for me.

Since this post was one of the few results dealing with the privvmpages issue on Google, figured I would post this as an option for others who might find it.