Sever load over 4?
195 processes: 174 sleeping, 18 running, 3 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: cpu user nice system irq softirq iowait idle
total 92.0% 0.0% 6.0% 0.4% 1.3% 0.0% 0.0%
Mem: 1026452k av, 1018704k used, 7748k free, 0k shrd, 7448k buff
880640k active, 98660k inactive
Swap: 2097136k av, 1009640k used, 1087496k free 146376k cached
PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME CPU COMMAND
1613 root 16 0 14252 1856 13024 S 97.1 0.1 708:58 0 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -D
22534 root 17 0 5276 1368 4892 R 4.1 0.1 0:04 0 top
1 root 16 0 1504 448 1356 S 0.0 0.0 0:01 0 init [3]
2 root RT 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 migration/0
3 root 34 19 0 0 0 SWN 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 ksoftirqd/0
4 root 5 -10 0 0 0 SW< 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 events/0
5 root 5 -10 0 0 0 SW< 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 khelper
6 root 14 -10 0 0 0 SW< 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 kacpid
21 root 5 -10 0 0 0 SW< 0.0 0.0 0:40 0 kblockd/0
35 root 10 -10 0 0 0 SW< 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 aio/0
Lately my server load been over 4 most of the time. Sometimes as high as 10. However while my server load is mostly in the 4-5. It doesn't seem to do much damage in terms of browsing on my site or forums. The server load is due to mostly my forums.
Another example:
15:41:36 up 2 days, 4:21, 1 user, load average: 11.61, 7.76, 6.39
193 processes: 187 sleeping, 5 running, 1 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: cpu user nice system irq softirq iowait idle
total 78.5% 0.0% 18.1% 1.3% 1.9% 0.0% 0.0%
Mem: 1026452k av, 1020932k used, 5520k free, 0k shrd, 4544k buff
901572k active, 78920k inactive
Swap: 2097136k av, 1018016k used, 1079120k free 62664k cached
PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME CPU COMMAND
1613 root 16 0 14252 1856 13024 S 63.5 0.1 711:17 0 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -D
34 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 5.9 0.0 6:01 0 kswapd0
4160 mailnull 16 0 16988 1652 3812 S 4.9 0.1 1:24 0 /usr/bin/perl -I/usr/mailscann
22534 root 16 0 5292 1352 4892 R 3.6 0.1 0:11 0 top
21 root 5 -10 0 0 0 SW< 0.3 0.0 0:41 0 kblockd/0
22439 root 16 0 6844 1464 6376 S 0.3 0.1 0:00 0 sshd: root@pts/0
1 root 16 0 1504 448 1356 S 0.0 0.0 0:01 0 init [3]
2 root RT 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 migration/0
3 root 34 19 0 0 0 SWN 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 ksoftirqd/0
4 root 5 -10 0 0 0 SW< 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 events/0
5 root 5 -10 0 0 0 SW< 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 khelper
How to fix this without having to throw out my forum?
