| Posted by Cyclon, 03-30-2005, 03:37 PM | | My server load on my reseller account / cPanel at PowerVPS in Servis status page is showing Server Load 1.71 (2 cpus), and it's going to 3 or 4 wery often. When it goes over 2 the red indicator blinking beside. What is this exactly showing? Is this wery bad?
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| Posted by Lev, 03-30-2005, 03:53 PM | | I don't think it's too bad. I'm pretty sure PowerVPS uses Dual Opteron's which can easily handle a load of 4.
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| Posted by Cyclon, 03-30-2005, 03:56 PM | | But what is that load exactly showing, why is flashin red when it goes over 2?
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| Posted by layer0, 03-30-2005, 04:48 PM | | Lev, he is on a VPS. The CPU usage that you see is quite bad. If you have root to this VPS, you may want to try to optimize a few things such as the httpd.conf settings. If you run "top" in SSH, you can see what is taking up your resources. You can try to optimize that service. I had MySQL spiking to 100% every few minutes once, I had a friend help me optimize it and now it never happens.
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| Posted by Cyclon, 03-30-2005, 04:58 PM | | No, I am not on the VPS, i have a reseller account. Is it then bad?
And can someone please explain to me what does that numbers of load mean? I now that load can be shown in % but I don't understand what are this numbers realy mean.
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| Posted by okihost, 03-30-2005, 05:16 PM | | The number goes red when it goes above a set limit set by your host, for example my 1CPU servers are set to display red at 1.25 and 2CPU servers at 2.25 if you are spiking at 3-4 everyone once in a while you should still be ok, I would watch to see that you do not notice a real slowdown on your sites and just ignore the load averages unless you are seeing it stay above 3+ all the time
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| Posted by Lev, 03-30-2005, 07:00 PM | | As his first post says, he is on a reseller account.
OKIHost explained the concept well. What I disagree with is that 3 is bad, even all the time, a Dual Opteron can handle it. As OKIHost said: you should just ignore spikes unless you see the load go high or if you notice a slowdown in the performance of your website. What you are currently seeing is in no way bad from my stand point.
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| Posted by Cyclon, 03-31-2005, 03:18 AM | | Ok, thanks
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| Posted by BF-Gary, 03-31-2005, 03:27 AM | | Do you notice this happens mostly late at night? It might be when they are doing backups and script updates as part of the nightly routine.
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