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hello, my website was not accessible today and when i asked my webhosting company, their response was:

It appears the site was suffering from 0% CPU usage apache processes.  Are you pulling any external API’s or content? Did you recently do anything within the EE backend.  The 0% CPU usage apache processes are filling up again:

PID USER     PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM   TIME+  COMMAND                                                                    
6181 ehxxxx   20   0 244m 16m 3356 S   0 0.1   0:00.14 apache2                                                                              
6182 ehxxxx   20   0 244m 17m 3500 S   0 0.1   0:00.28 apache2                                                                              
6183 ehxxxx   20   0 243m 16m 3524 S   0 0.1   0:00.58 apache2                                                                              
6343 ehxxxx   20   0 244m 17m 3512 S   0 0.1   0:00.44 apache2                                                                              
6539 ehxxxx   20   0 235m 7132 1192 S   0 0.1   0:00.01 apache2  

I can’t say exactly what caused the 0% CPU usage apache processes other than they’re usually caused by apache waiting for something to happen thats taking awhile.

the webhosting company cleared the processes and my site is up again but i’m confused as to what any of this means. this site is EE v2.5.0 with no out of the ordinary add-ons (wygwam, matrix, cloner, switchee, image sizer).

i’m just wondering if you could offer some insight in case i am doing something wrong.

thanks!
-patricia