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High load average, when should I be worried? [duplicate]
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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What does load average mean? [duplicate]
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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Understanding the Apache server-status page [duplicate]
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How do you read load averages? (eg: Load Averages: 0.60 0.60 0.55) [duplicate]
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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free -m output, should I be concerend about this servers low memory? [duplicate]
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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How does process CPU usage relate to Load Average? [duplicate]
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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check why memory is being used [duplicate]
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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What is system load? [duplicate]
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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What would cause an average load of 10-30 (rather than 10-30%) [duplicate]
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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Where is my RAM going? Top command included [duplicate]
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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is it a normal to have load average upper than 1? [duplicate]
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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High CPU utilization but low load average
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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Why is Linux reporting "free" memory strangely?
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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How to get % memory usage with vmstat?
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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Linux: which process consumed all the memory?
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 ...