Server Load Times High, help?
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top - 11:38:33 up 9:16, 1 user, load average: 5.68, 6.34, 6.83 |
Hi, and welcome to LQ!
The CPU is high, indeed, as is the load average. What kind of hardware are we looking at? The load could easily be created by I/O wait, so the HDD or the network card could be the bottle- neck, for example. Cheers, Tink |
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1 GB RAM 60 GB Hard Drive 2000 GB Data Transfer I think the CPU is a Celeron not sure. Any linux command to tell? |
cat /proc/cpuinfo
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So ...
you've got a truckload of apache tasks. Twelve of which (at that time) are on the runqueue - for (presumably) just one CPU. Then there's likely to be (pending) disk I/O. All of which contributes to the load averages. With a CPU% like that, I'd say you're over-committed, but that depends on your work goals. |
Well I don't understand why I have so many apache tasks. I am assuming it doesn't have to do with the traffic I get?
What should I do? What's the solution? Code:
processor : 0 |
Upgrade the hardware? Get a real CPU and maybe SCSI disks?
You could look at the output of vmstat for a while to establish whether the bottleneck is indeed the disk-I/O, or whether the CPU just can't cope with what's being thrown at it. Cheers, Tink |
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