On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 10:13:04AM +0530, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: > I am really new to htop application. Basically i am interested to know > which application is causing high load on the server and the reason > associated to it. I really do not understand what causes load on the server > and how do we prevent it. As per the best practices what factor is > considered to determine a server saying it is high, medium and light load
Load average is the average number of threads running on the system. On Linux, this also includes I/O wait, which is the time a thread spends sleeping while waiting for I/O to complete. I suggest you make htop display threads and detailed CPU time. You may also want to add the IO_RATE column, and run htop as root so it can fetch all the information of all threads. Note that, if you have many processors, it may be perfectly sane to observe a "high" load average, since it doesn't take into account the number of processors. As long as the load average doesn't exceed that number too much, your system is normally fine. -- Richard Braun ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get your SQL database under version control now! Version control is standard for application code, but databases havent caught up. So what steps can you take to put your SQL databases under version control? Why should you start doing it? Read more to find out. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48897031&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ htop-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/htop-general
