I'm trying to be a responsible user and keep track of what's happening on my server, but I don't know what some of these listings mean. And the documentation for WebHost Manager (WHM) seems, well, a bit too cryptic for this old haus-frau. ;)

In the "Today's CPU Usage" display yesterday morning, there was the following:
Note: Percentages are based on one cpu.
If you have 2 cpus divide the number in half
to get the percentage of all cpu power used

User Domain %CPU %MEM Mysql Processes
[user] [domain] 10.20 0.00 0.0

Top Process %CPU 7.0 httpd [domain] [/filename1.gif]
Top Process %CPU 6.5 httpd [domain] [/filename2.gif]
Top Process %CPU 6.2 httpd [domain] [/filename3.gif]
The second row after the "Note" (the "[user] [domain]" line) was highlighted in yellow, and by the end of the day had turned red. Should I be worrying?

(Note: I'm on a virtual-private-server account, with "AMD Dual Opteron Server" and "512MB RAM Guaranteed, 2048MB RAM Burstable".)


At the same time as the above display, the "Service Status" display showed the following:
Server Load 0.80 (2 cpus)
Memory Used 61.6 %
Swap Used 26.64 %
Disk vzfs (/) 3 %
How does this relate to "Today's CPU Usage", if at all? What is "Disk vzfs"? If I'm using 0% memory (from the first screen), then how am I using 61.6% memory (in the second screen)? What does "0.80 (2 cpus)" mean? What is being measured?


Meanwhile, in Virtuozzo, I found the following in the "Resources" screen:
Resource Capacity
CPU 28.0%
Load Average 0.22, 0.39, 0.37

Resource Capacity
System 19.14%
How are these CPU "averages" being found? What do they mean? What is meant by "system"?


Also, I know I'm supposed to check my "QoS" listing in Virtuozzo frequently, and that this listing is related to something-or-other failing or stopping or some such, but what exactly is "QoS"?

Thank you for your patience while I learn. :blush:

Eliz.

Well, I don't feel so bad, if nobody else knows what to make of this, either. :look:

Eliz.

All the above looks okay :)

Basically, the first report will show you what processes have used the most CPU over the day, it's httpd, which is pretty standard on a web server. The second report shows you current usage, again, pretty standard, the load on the server is very good, CPU usage at 60% is great.

Third is basically giving you the overall system status of the VPS from outside of the VPS.

...the load on the server is very good, CPU usage at 60% is great.
Thank you for the reassurances, but I'm afraid I'm not seeing where you're getting that the CPU usage is at sixty percent...? What am I misreading?

Thank you.

Eliz.

Thank you for the reassurances, but I'm afraid I'm not seeing where you're getting that the CPU usage is at sixty percent...? What am I misreading?

Thank you.

Eliz.

Sorry Eliz, that shouldn't been Memory usage at 60%. Keep in mind *nix in general will use as much memory as possible, then release memory as needed to other applications...

So you would second the recommendations regarding caching and KeepAliveTimeout that were suggested elsewhere (http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=485733)?

If you're serving static files then a lightweight httpd such as lighttpd together with enforced long caching times for some files (hours or days) will dramatically reduce your overheads.
you can probably tweak a few things in your httpd.conf - especially your KeepAliveTimeout which I would set to about 3-5 for your site.
I would also strongly suggest loading the expires module and setting your static files to cache client side for a longer amount of time

Thank you so much for your time and advice.

Eliz.