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In UNIX family Operating Systems, the load average represents the average system load over a period of time.

In UNIX family Operating Systems, the load average represents the average system load over a period of time. It conventionally appears in the form of three numbers which represent the system load during the last one-, five-, and fifteen-minute periods. It's calculated according CPU usage, Disk I/O, Network I/O.

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Needs to identify cause of high load average

I see high kB_read in iostat output. right now, load average of the system is very high. Is it io bound high load?
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Should I use cpu utilization or system load?

I use ffmpeg to transcode H265 video to H264 stream. The computer seems over capacity while pulling video from two cameras. The machine is equipped with a 8-core i7-7700T. My question is, shall I use CPU utilization (460.7%, 331.7%) or load…
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Apache causing massive load spike after reboot

My server is running Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS, with LAMP stack (PHP 7.4), and apache version 2.4.29 using Prefork MPM. My server has 16 CPUs and 29GB of RAM. This server hosts 258 websites. Whenever I reboot my server, I notice (using top command) that…
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Load average explanation for multi-core systems

I'm trying to understand the Load average in my Debian system. I've read some explanations of the displayed values and I came to understand that the number represents how "overloaded" my system is. So, the 0.5 load average means, that my system…
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High average load + low cpu usage + low disk usage + normal network usage + normal memory usage = ok or not?

I see high CPU average load several times a day on my server. For example, 21:20 and 22:45 on the following figure: However, my CPU, disk, and network are all OK: Disk Network CPU Memory Also do not see strange forks Interrupts…
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Our WordPress Auction Website increases CPU Spikes hosted in dedicated server

We have hosted our WordPress website in the dedicated server(CENTOS 7.9 kvm [server]) with 8 CPU. Our website is auction based website. So normally 20 auctions will be in live. But our website reaches high CPU usage and spikes. We have tried to…
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Can't understand reason of high load average (LA)

I got bare-metal server with 32cores/64thrds CPU and 64GB RAM. Ubuntu 18.04 on-board. Running pgsql (low load), ~250 docker containers with python for network working. htop show me LA 120 (1/5/15 mins), but i can not find the reason. htop show ~50%…
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Using core affinity for Debian servers: isolate core to specific tasks?

I currently have an 8-core web server that is running into load problems due to heavy amounts of image processing--Imagemagick and other associated software will often spike the server's load up to 50+. My thought would be to isolate Imagemagick…
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Centos 7 - High Load, low CPU, low IO wait, no processed maked as D

I've got a CentOS 7 VM which seems to be stuck with quite high load (8-10). CPU usage is around 25%, there is no IO wait and there are no processes marked as D in top. I've been looking around as much as I can but these seem to be the only three…
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Directadmin Warning The system load average is X

I am not a server guru, could somebody help me understand what part of my server is under load and what can I do to fix this? My best guess is too many connection to node server + mysql, becuse most the time I am getting mysql connection refeused…
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mysql server with high CPU usage on low loads

On a mysql server with fairly low load, I can see my mysql process using 150% CPU on htop and the system load around 1.5 at all times - sometimes spiking well over 2 The VM has 8 cores assigned to it and a lot of spare RAM, although, id does not…
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server average load exact formula

I was in assumption cpu average load is calculated depend on number of process in running state (R state) + process waiting for I/O ( D state). But today I noticed that server is showing high load average and number of running process is 1 and there…
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How does process CPU usage relate to Load Average?

I have the following host / load: Two 6-core CPUs, with HT (From what I understand, max load would be 24.0) 12 "primary" processes, with sustained usage of about 50% CPU Load average: 0.86 0.98 0.98 Could someone help me understand: How do…
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WordPress on a CentsOS 6.4 with high CPU loads

I'm helping a friend out, he's running a CentosOS 6.4 server, with Apache/2.2.24 (Unix) httpd server. His site is running on WordPress 3.81 (latest version) and he's having 30,000 unique page views per day. He is running this setup on a dedicated…
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solr is killing my server by taking a lot of resources

I have Ubuntu 9.10 server with 12G Ram/Quad Core/HD 80GB RAID. and i have installed solr lucidworks-enterprise-installer-1.7 on it to index a small database (about 20k articles). once our editors start to use solr functionalities to search for a…
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