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[Medo Hard]

Hello every One .
i Need your Help with this Server ..

Processor Information Processor #1 Vendor: GenuineIntel
Processor #1 Name: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5310 @ 1.60GHz
Processor #1 speed: 1596.709 MHz
Processor #1 cache size: 4096 KB

Processor #2 Vendor: GenuineIntel
Processor #2 Name: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5310 @ 1.60GHz
Processor #2 speed: 1596.709 MHz
Processor #2 cache size: 4096 KB

Processor #3 Vendor: GenuineIntel
Processor #3 Name: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5310 @ 1.60GHz
Processor #3 speed: 1596.709 MHz
Processor #3 cache size: 4096 KB

Processor #4 Vendor: GenuineIntel
Processor #4 Name: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5310 @ 1.60GHz
Processor #4 speed: 1596.709 MHz
Processor #4 cache size: 4096 KB

Processor #5 Vendor: GenuineIntel
Processor #5 Name: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5310 @ 1.60GHz
Processor #5 speed: 1596.709 MHz
Processor #5 cache size: 4096 KB

Processor #6 Vendor: GenuineIntel
Processor #6 Name: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5310 @ 1.60GHz
Processor #6 speed: 1596.709 MHz
Processor #6 cache size: 4096 KB

Processor #7 Vendor: GenuineIntel
Processor #7 Name: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5310 @ 1.60GHz
Processor #7 speed: 1596.709 MHz
Processor #7 cache size: 4096 KB

Processor #8 Vendor: GenuineIntel
Processor #8 Name: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5310 @ 1.60GHz
Processor #8 speed: 1596.709 MHz
Processor #8 cache size: 4096 KB
Memory Information Memory: 8308336k/9175040k )
available (1882k kernel code, 78276k reserved, 761k data, 188k init, 7470144k highmem System Information Linux server.servername.com 2.6.9-55.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed May 2 14:28:44 EDT 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
Current Memory Usage total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 8309904 8288204 21700 0 125992 7364608
-/+ buffers/cache: 797604 7512300
Swap: 2040244 208 2040036
Total: 10350148 8288412 2061736



Server Load now : 350.44 %
it's toooooooo much and i think that it's a Good server .
i use Cpanel software .


can any one tell me how can i edit settings as well to get down load ?
I'm apologizing for my Poor lang.

[Jamson]

Try using a PHP accelerator such as eAccelerator, or change from apache to another program like Litespeed.

[VINAX]

Show us the output of top command in SSH, then we may have an idea of what caused that high load.

[ddent]

Depends on what kind of workload you are doing, but if by 350% you mean a 3.5 load average, that could be just fine. 3.5/8 is not so bad if your workload is even.

[Spudstr]

I have a hunch your disk IO is your bottleneck and is causing it to be slow.

[w00ts!te]

Originally Posted by ddent

Depends on what kind of workload you are doing, but if by 350% you mean a 3.5 load average, that could be just fine. 3.5/8 is not so bad if your workload is even.

This is true. I have to do that with my servers as they have 4 processors.

[Ashley Merrick]

The rule of the thumb is 1 per a CPU core is healty and a max of 2 per a cpu core.

So if you have 8 cores then a load average of 8 is fine, and a load average of 16 is pushing it and server speed will decrease.

3.4 is fine, if you have a powerfull server like that your want to use the power, which is what your doing, your not even using half the proccesors.

[Medo Hard]

Here you are the screen shoot for my normal load

OS :
CENTOS Enterprise 4.5 i686

[Ashley Merrick]

Ok that is quite bad 62% is not good, you should higher a company to optimize your Apache and Mysql as you have one powerfull server there so with some optimization you should be fine.

[KarlZimmer]

Originally Posted by Medo Hard

Here you are the screen shoot for my normal load

OS :
CENTOS Enterprise 4.5 i686

A faster disk might help, if disk IO generally stays at 13% or higher that is definitely a possible bottleneck. Otherwise, as others have said, MySQL and Apache tweaking, and/or possibly switching to lighttpd or similar should help. The load of 65 is quite high, and you have plenty of memory with 5.5GB used for cache. Just looking at that, you might want to allocate more RAM for MySQL caching, etc.

[Medo Hard]

so is there any thing can i do with server settings to can make it better ?
like install some programs for Apache or SQL can move the load down . ?

[D3m0n]

look at the tech section you can find some info there about these issues.

Also as guys told above.. make optimizations in your php and sql (add zend/EA etc.)

[thiago]

i had a problem as you! i fix the problem when i change the time of logs's cretion! is very high!!! see this!

[torqhost]

You have all apache instances use some cpu percent, do you have so many live visitors (refreshing at the same point in time)? What are those scripts doing?
It might also be the case, that you need to optimize PHP code (or whatever scripting language you use).
BTW: 13% IO wait will not cause 65 load average, but it seems to me your PHP scripts are doing a lot of IO, or am I wrong?