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09-28-2006, 08:10 PM #1Web Hosting Evangelist
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whats "user" and "system" in the top output?
as the title suggests, what is "user" and "system" in top?
it seems to spike on my vps up to 100% quite often, makes load go up to unhealthy amounts.
thanks!
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09-28-2006, 08:33 PM #2Rockin' the beer gut
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Well, if that's the case, depending on the process, you should investigate that as they are eating CPU. 100% CPU.
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09-28-2006, 08:35 PM #3Web Hosting Evangelist
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ok if i look at the "top" processes, its practically empty. yet load shoots up to 5-12, sometimes higher. barely anything going on on the server-- in fact abotu 2 days ago there was a complete outage due to a faulty cpanel update that corrupted my dns... so basically the server was serving absolutely nothing, yet my load was at like 3-5 the entire period.
your best bet-- do you think this has something to do with the node, or my specific VPS?
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09-28-2006, 11:38 PM #4Web Hosting Guru
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Originally Posted by chamelion
Code:CPU These are percentages of total CPU time. us: Time spent running non-kernel code. (user time, including nice time) sy: Time spent running kernel code. (system time) id: Time spent idle. Prior to Linux 2.5.41, this includes IO-wait time. wa: Time spent waiting for IO. Prior to Linux 2.5.41, shown as zero.
"sys" -> CPU time running code in kernel space