The reporting of CPU consumption is based solely on the processes your VPS is running.
You may want to log the processes running during periods of high load, perhaps logrotate or similar cron task is smashing CPU late at night. Dave Echoman PTY LTD On 25/10/2013, at 9:49 AM, li...@sbt.net.au wrote: > I'm experiencing serious performance issues on a VPS, as far as I > concerned, it's some issues on the actual server not the vps > > what if anything can I test on the vps to 'prove my suspicions', both past > and future ? > > I have some stuff like cacti and sar already installed > > last night, htop was showing load average of over 90, according to cacti, > it even might have peaked at 100+ around 2am > > this morning, it's at it's usual of around .15 > > > # sar -s 01:00:00 -e 02:30:00 > Linux 2.6.32-358.23.2.el6.x86_64 10/25/2013 _x86_64_(2 CPU) > > 01:20:21 AM CPU %user %nice %system %iowait %steal > %idle > 01:32:51 AM all 2.64 0.00 1.07 96.29 0.00 > 0.00 > 01:40:04 AM all 3.98 0.00 1.11 94.90 0.00 > 0.00 > 01:50:09 AM all 9.72 0.01 1.30 87.94 0.00 > 1.04 > 02:00:06 AM all 9.47 0.01 1.72 75.23 0.00 > 13.57 > 02:10:07 AM all 4.82 0.01 1.11 92.58 0.00 > 1.49 > 02:20:02 AM all 6.54 0.01 1.18 52.34 0.00 > 39.93 > Average: all 6.16 0.01 1.25 83.24 0.00 > 9.35 > > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
