I deactivated all the plugins I wasn’t actually using as a start and it seems to have remedied all the problems I was having. Looks like soemthing wasn’t playing nice. Thanks for the help 🙂
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Thanks for the reply. Before I start the dance (I can’t think I’ve added anything new in months) I was trying to connect to the installation from my mobile and all I kept getting getting was a 500 error. WHen I looked the error logs it seemed like there was insufficient memory. Looking at the processes there seemed to be about 12 instances of apache running 2 seconds after a restart. Its a multisite installation although traffic is tiny (I mean around 10 visitors a day across all sites right now) running on 256mb VPS.
With this new info do you have any other advice? Many thanks again.