Wordpress server memory usage

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Im having issues with my wordpress site. Its become very popular, and with all of this traffic, Im either having too much server load, or too much server memory being used. I am using the WP super cache plugin, and when I use it the memory usage goes way up. If I get rid of it, the memory usage drops down a lot, and my server load goes up big time. Am I doing something wrong or is this basically what Im looking at with a lot of traffic?
I dont have many plugins installed that I think would be causing problems, just akismet, all in one SEO, feedburner, google sitemaps, mighty adsense, search everything, shorturl, statcounter, ultimate google analytics, and WP super cache.

heres a picture of my server load. You can clearly see when the cache plugins were used or not used.
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the only weird thing is that last jump had nothing to do with me doing anything

here is the log after last night. The traffic had no effect on memory usage, but I guess the site was actually stable. Not sure why it was so high though
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are you on a shared server or you dedicated server?

If you're really concerned about the load, you might want to consider a server side php accelerator like eaccelerator or if you really like hacking, you could set up a squid cache to cache everything your apache server spits out.

Squid caching - Meta
 
I usually dont have a problem in Wordpress but in WPMU with memory limit in php.ini. You should at least check and see if it is set in php.ini. memory_limit=16m or whatever. Default is 8m I think. So if there is no tag it is 8m, small...

WordPress › Support » Can't find php.ini

Try searching in your file manager in VPS for php.ini. Then view / edit it.
 
Is your DataBase very large?

You could try optimizing your db if you can access myphpadmin.
It can make a big difference to server load, but depends on the db.
 
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