my server is up for 11 days now and the load wasn't a problem for all this time (below 1.0 except on doing backups, or while i was compiling something)

now it jumped to 3.0~5.0 average

i'm scheduling a reboot this night to see if something get solved, but i'd like to know how can i trace what's making it get high

root@server01 [/]# free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1027996 997816 30180 0 137228 561608
-/+ buffers/cache: 298980 729016
Swap: 2040212 99780 1940432

root@server01 [/]# w
17:47:14 up 11 days, 23:37, 1 user, load average: 4.47, 3.59, 3.76

I don't have an idea on how to interpret those points/K/W, but I guess that's the problem:
Current Time: Thursday, 15-Apr-2004 17:46:58 BRT
Restart Time: Thursday, 15-Apr-2004 14:53:46 BRT
Parent Server Generation: 17
Server uptime: 2 hours 53 minutes 12 seconds
Total accesses: 148109 - Total Traffic: 1.1 GB
CPU Usage: u14.26 s2.4 cu.31 cs.15 - .165% CPU load
14.3 requests/sec - 106.0 kB/second - 7.4 kB/request
35 requests currently being processed, 12 idle servers
KKWK_K__WWK__KK_W_KWKKKG_K_KKWWKWK_KKKWW_K_KRW...............W..
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there's probably some site sending too much requests?
if so, any ideas on how to find out which one?

thanks in advance

BTW,

httpd.conf
KeepAlive On
MaxKeepAliveRequests 1000
KeepAliveTimeout 5
MinSpareServers 5
MaxSpareServers 10
StartServers 5
MaxClients 250

but i don't a tweak is necessary in here, since the server runned ok for the last 10 days
so that's probably a "temporary" situation (some site receiving many visits)

theres this really cool program that comes with almost all distro's - its called 'top'

run top from the console then pres P (shift+p) to sort by cpu usage

q to quit, h for help :-)

Originally posted by ozzy_cow
theres this really cool program that comes with almost all distro's - its called 'top'

run top from the console then pres P (shift+p) to sort by cpu usage

q to quit, h for help :-)

yes, i know...

but 'top' shows "httpd" (nobody) and that doesn't give me any information about which site/account/user is generating this load/use

if you have cpanel you can see the users using the most resources on the machine

Originally posted by Lem0nHead
my server is up for 11 days now and the load wasn't a problem for all this time (below 1.0 except on doing backups, or while i was compiling something)

now it jumped to 3.0~5.0 average

i'm scheduling a reboot this night to see if something get solved, but i'd like to know how can i trace what's making it get high





I don't have an idea on how to interpret those points/K/W, but I guess that's the problem:


there's probably some site sending too much requests?
if so, any ideas on how to find out which one?

thanks in advance

if this is cpanel try https://ur.server.xxx:2087/scripts2/apachestatus it will show the sites and repeated requests etc..

thanks

it seens the server was needing a reboot :mad:

load is back to normal now after the reboot

i know that there is a way to check what apache process is doing what, what script is it running and to who is it serving etc. i cant find it anywhere in the docs though...