1. The load average is 1,5,15 minutes.
2. You're right. the memory is almost all used. I think a restart for the
services (Apache+MySQL), might do some good at freeing some memory.
3. Swapping can also explain about busy I/O are slow response to disk
commands (like ls and friends). I think this point was only talked about
in private messages with me. I'm not sure.
Lior Kaplan
Guides.co.il
> On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 08:58:19PM +0200, WildLove - Elad Almadoi wrote:
>> Hey!
>> I'm runing IBM xSeries 335 (aka IBM x335) with:
>> IBM x335 rackmount (xSeries)
>> CPU: Dual Intel Xeon 2.6GHz (533MHz)
>> Hardrives: IBM 36.4GB 10K-rpm Ultra160 SCSI Hot-Swap x 2 (1 is connected
>> as
>> a mirror (raid-1) for constant backup
>> Operating System: RedHat 7.3 + Ensim Pro 3.5.19
>> RAM: 1.5 GB DDR PC2100 ECC - 2 DIMMs
>> Single-Channel Ultra320 SCSI Controller
>> Dual BROADCOM NetXtreme BCM5703X 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet
>> as a server in the IGLD ranch.
>> It got on it a system named "Ensim" (ensim.com) that is a control panel
>> for
>> webhosting providers.
>> on a P3 700, the load was 1-5 therefor it's dont seems like overload
>> some information:
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wildlove]$ uptime
>> 8:52pm up 3 days, 23:37, 1 user, load average: 19.59, 15.61, 13.39
>>
>> By using 'free -m' command I see that:
>>
>> Total memory: 1514, used memory: 1442, free memory: 72
>> Buffers\cache, used: 655, free: 859
>> Total swap: 1992, used 136, free 1856
>> Runing kernel 2.4.22, compiled from source code and not rpm (Tryed
>> redhat
>> 7.3 rpms for 2.4.20 and 2.4.18, both was even higher!)
>> Here's my 'top' command:
>> 8:56pm up 3 days, 23:41, 1 user, load average: 27.03, 19.53, 15.26
>> 426 processes: 395 sleeping, 3 running, 28 zombie, stopped
>> CPU0 states: 8.8% user, 11.2% system, 0.0% nice, 79.8% idle
>> CPU1 states: 12.2% user, 7.1% system, 0.0% nice, 80.5% idle
>> CPU2 states: 10.1% user, 9.7% system, 0.0% nice, 80.0% idle
>> CPU3 states: 8.6% user, 11.4% system, 0.0% nice, 79.8% idle
>> Mem: 1551152K av, 1435796K used, 115356K free, 0K shrd, 101496K
>> buff
>> Swap: 2040244K av, 139388K used, 1900856K free 772576K
>> cached
>> Hopefully some one know my answer
>> Thnks in advance!
>
> Load avarage is relatively high (though I'm not sure what "high" means
> for your system.). What's worse: it seems to be increasing.
>
> The load avarage is the avarage number of porcesses that are ready to
> run in the last {5 minutes, 10 minutes (?), 1 hour}.
>
> Try running "ps auxww |grep ' R '" to see processes ready to run.
>
> Your system is mostly busy with IO: the CPUs are mostly idle and busy
> with system. Probably they are mostly swapping memory pages in and out,
> and spend very little time doing actual work.
>
> So you probably have too many processes for your current memory size.
> Either find who uses memory highly inefficiently, or get more memory.
>
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