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I have a server which runs a few hundred processes simultaneously, most of them are idle, it is some sort of web crawler it sleeps between requests for various reasons. So as a result, my load ...
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Possible Duplicate: How to understand the memory usage and load average in linux server I have ready many articles that try to explain load average. To date none have ever explained it well enough ...
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The following is a sample server status page taken from Apache website: Current Time: Thursday, 01-May-2014 07:38:59 UTC Restart Time: Friday, 11-Apr-2014 18:30:33 UTC Parent Server Config. ...
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Possible Duplicate: How to understand the memory usage and load average in linux server My hosting company provides "Load Average" stats when I login. There is no link to more information about ...
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Possible Duplicate: How to understand the memory usage and load average in linux server This is the output of free -m on a production database (MySQL with machine. 83MB looks pretty bad, but I ...
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I have the following host / load: Two 6-core CPUs, with HT (From what I understand, max load would be 24.0) 12 "primary" processes, with sustained usage of about 50% CPU Load average: 0.86 0.98 0.98 ...
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Possible Duplicate: How to understand the memory usage and load average in linux server I'm running Debian and I'm wondering why so much of my memory is being used (8GB of the 8GB) Is there any ...
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Possible Duplicate: How to understand the memory usage and load average in linux server I was reading this question, and it left me wondering what system load is. What does it actually measure?
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Possible Duplicate: How to understand the memory usage and load average in linux server I'm not sure whether this would be better titled "Why would Nagios need to monitor a load reaching 30". ...
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Possible Duplicate: How to understand the memory usage and load average in linux server Tasks: 39 total, 1 running, 37 sleeping, 0 stopped, 1 zombie Cpu(s): 0.0%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni,100.0%...
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On 7.9 redhat os. I was told by our admin server that load average (can be seen using top) of my server should not be upper than 1. but our 3 servers have a load balancing that is equal to 7.78, or ...
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We are running into a strange behavior where we see high CPU utilization but quite low load average. The behavior is best illustrated by the following graphs from our monitoring system. At about 11:...
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This is a canonical question about how Unix operating systems report memory usage. Similar Questions: Server refuses to use swap partition Memory Usage in LINUX I have production ...
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I need to get a memory usage in % from vmstat, but I don't quite understand some of the numbers relating to memory displayed in vmstat. In particular, given an output like this procs -----------...
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We have 4GB on our linux server but we can currently use only ~1.8GB for our java-server, which is the first java process listed below. (200 MB are free so we can maximal use 1.6GB + 0.2GB) The ...
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