installed squeeze, but top keeps reporting 0.00 most of the time, and def it's wrong cause we have another server same hardware but lenny, and its over 2.00 same load. what can i check or do to fix this? thx
Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 #1 SMP Wed May 18 23:13:22 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux
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I read the man pages of batch and it says that commands or scripts scheduled using the batch command will only execute when the load average goes below 0.8. As a newbie I hardy understand what it means. Does it mean that the system resources are busy?Ans since I want to see the o/p of the commands I have set using batch, is there any way i can bring the sys load average below 0.8?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI was struggling to find the information so I thought it would be easier to ask here. What does the load average as reported by top mean ? To me those are 3 mysterious values, which most likely refer to some average CPU usage and this is all I know about it (not sure if it's true).What is the maximum value for this parameter (I guess the minimum is 0.00) and what does it mean ?
View 5 Replies View RelatedHow to get the load average for each CPU core in multi core(eg:duel core machine) processor environment. I tried using,
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1. cat /proc/loadavg
2. uptime
3. top
But all of those commands gives the load average for whole system but not particular CPU core. Are there a way to take the load average for CPU core(Or any mechanism that can be done programmatic manner).
How to reduce the load average? I have two linux machines.. now my problem is that both the machines having same configuration and same processes are running in those two machines... But in one machine the load average is more than 3 and in other it is 0.5(when i am using top command).For this load average one machine(where load average is more) is slow when i am running application on it..
View 5 Replies View RelatedI wrote a script to extract and get the the name of *.gz in a foler . Since running that script every 10 minutes, load average on my server increases more than 10.I checked with 'top' and it showed many D process.
View 2 Replies View RelatedThe load average is almost 1.06, but cpu is not 100% utilized... I am just wondering why load average is 1.06 in that case still ? (well i monitored cpu for long time, it never exceeded above 40%)can anyone explain the reason behind it ? Also is the system over utilized in this case ?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI am having Red Hat LINUX 5 Enterprise Server and facing problem regarding very very high server load (load average is going high up to 60-70)due to which server is getting hang.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI have two servers. One in production (lets call it the OLD ONE) and the other (lets call it the NEW ONE) in tests to replace the OLD ONE.This is the basic hardware of each one: (I can post more detailed info if you need, but beside the erros on dmesg, look at the the L2 cache of the NEW ONE )
Old one:
2 quad core processors that linux recognize as 8 x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5440 @ 2.83GHz - 32Kb L1 - 6Mb L2
48Gb RAM
New one:
8 quad core processor that linux recognize as 32 x AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 6136 @ 2.400Mhz (- 64Kb L1 - 512Kb L2
128Gb RAM
The scenario:We run a dataflex system on the old one, with average of 3000 users, with tops at 3300 users and sometimes less then 2000. In the old one, we have a load average from 2 to 6 with the 3000 users, depending on the type of application (sometimes we run reports to txt files that take more then 6 hours to complete and the load average can raise to 12). 85% of this conections are from remote links.
Dataflex is a language that derives from C that have their own sgbd (if we can call it that way), and have a limit of 2gb per table. This size we almost have on 5 tables and we use a dataflex feature to compress the data.
The problem:We are migrating (or trying to) the tables to oracle, so we bought new machines for the DB and the new one to replace the old one, becouse we think that could not handle the job with 2 oracles (load balance).In some tests we could see (or suposed) that the oracle database was not so fast with more then 1000 users (opening same table and doing the same task) and we decided to test the new one with the system that is in production right now, with dataflex tables, to ensure that the problem could be oracle.We change the HDs and IP. Started the system on the new one, and started to monitorate as the real users start their jobs. At 800 users the Load Average raised to 26 and with 1300 users we had more then 115 on Load Average. More users login in and the TOP become slow, pointing 400 of LA. From here we started to get some "Lock time out" erros and we had to change to the old one again, to prevent corruption on the tables. I'm analizing all report tools I know about performance and hardware and I cant see nothing. I saw some errors on dmesg, but I can say that is related to that problem.
Since upgrading from 9.10 to 10.04, my system is noticeably less responsive and exhibits halting behavior for at times 10s of seconds. There is nothing obvious in the various logs that I can find. The only objective indication I can find that demonstrates that something is seriously wrong is that my load average never drops below 0.5 and is often over 1.5, even at idle. In this situation, top/ps/whatever shows very few processes running (usually just top). This suggests to me that either the new kernel scheduler is horrible or that something new is resulting in blocking I/O or other uninterruptable sleeps.Typical top output:
Quote:
top - 12:18:01 up 1 day, 49 min, 5 users, load average: 1.42, 0.86, 0.71
Tasks: 262 total, 1 running, 261 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 0.9%us, 0.8%sy, 0.0%ni, 97.6%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.7%si, 0.0%st
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I have High load on my server and my investigation shows nothing (so i believe that my investigations is wrong ), the load average in this moment is 10.13, 9.47, 8.24. , mentioning the below.
- The disk utilization (all the disks) is near 0, as the result of the IOSTAT
- There is no blocked processes (as a result of VMSTAT).
- I have two processors (dual core) , the maximum load average should be something around 4.
- The server always have above 8 load average in all times interval.
btw , my OS is RHEL AS release 4 (Nahant Update 7)Kernel :Linux 2.6.9-78.ELhugemem #1 SMP i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
Anyone know what means the values of Load Average?
load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.04
load average: 17.50, 13.44, 12.70
Sometime is low and many times is high.
I don't know what is going on with one of my servers.
It is sitting with a load average of 10.09 10.08 10.02
However If I look at top I see the server between 95% and 99% idle!
Is it possible that my server is running some hidden processes or something?
How I can investigate the cause of this.
I have high load average on the servers with no identified reason (From my point of view)
View 2 Replies View RelatedIs it possible with vixie cron to limit cron's activities by the current load average? Basically I'm looking for the same functionality that's in fcron, but I'm restricted to use the vixie cron with CentOS 5.3.If not, does anyone have any recommendations on limiting the impact that cron has when it runs 20-30 user-specified crontabs at once?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI recently upgraded from Fedora 11 to Fedora 14 on my Dell Latitude E6400 notebook PC. It's a Dual core processor, as seen in the uname provided below:
uname -a:
Linux COMPUTERNAME 2.6.35.6-48.fc14.i686 #1 SMP Fri Oct 22 15:34:36 UTC 2010 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
redhat-release:
Fedora release 14 (Laughlin)
Since the upgrade, I've noticed some unexplainable behavior: The load average is consistently 0.5 - 1.75 when my PC is completely idle (99% according to top). No processes are in the D (I/O) state, and I have no Zombie processes. This happens on a fresh boot, every time. It gets worse and less worse, and bounces from unusable (cursor stops moving as I type in the terminal, to actually losing keystrokes at times). I'm wondering if anybody else is experiencing similar issues, or knows of a (the) kernel bug which is causing this behavior? Actively researching the issue. I've come across the following: Tens of wakes per second in "[kernel scheduler] Load balancing tick" on Core 2 Duo even with only 1 core enabled
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A server of mine previously running ubuntu 9.10 used to be between 0.01 and 0.10 load average during the normal load of users using various server programs on it (mostly apache with php scripts).
Now, after upgrading to 10.04 (which went smoothly for the most part), the load average is much greater under the same user workload, hovering between 0.1 and 0.3 under very light work and up to and over 1 regularly when more users are accessing the same scripts.
Are there any known issues that would cause greater usage of the same resources in lucid, or are there any ways I can trace what's causing the higher load? Downgrading or starting with a fresh install are last resorts, as there are a lot of customized options specifically set up for this server and I'd rather not go through backing them all up and restoring them after a complete wipe.
It's the fourth time now since Maverick that I had to cold reboot my system because it was totally unresponsive. The system monitor in my taskbar shows 100% on the background blue graph (I guess that's just one core then) and almost nothing on the other core. On the last freeze I managed to open 'sudo top' before it went totally unresponsive and saw that there was no high CPU usage at all, but a load average spiking above 24. Also the swap seemed to be full although my machine usually never uses swap. I was watching a movie with VLC this time, but I'm not sure if VLC ran the other times my OS froze. I made a snapshot with my cell phone: [URL]. How I can prevent a process from causing so much load?
View 6 Replies View RelatedI am having a problem with the server that I use to host my personal site. The load average quite often spikes to exceed 1.00 for the 1 and 5 minute intervals, and the 15 minute interval gets above .5. This occurs while the server is idle, serving very few or no requests and with the CPU 99% idle with <1% IOWAIT usage. I have checked top and vmstat, but neither one provides any useful info. Top continues to say the CPU is 99% idle, and vmstat says that there are 0 runnable and 0 blocking tasks. Occasionally, vmstat will say that there is 1 runnable task, but this doesn't even coincide with the load average spikes. I have already searched for other solutions to this problem, but everything I have seen says to use top and/or vmstat, but those aren't showing anything out of the ordinary. Can anyone recommend anything else I might do?
My server has a Pentium 4 HT 3gHz processor, 2GB RAM, and runs Kubuntu 10.10. (The reason it runs Kubuntu instead of Ubuntu Server is that it needs an X environment so that the Nvidia driver can initialize and put its graphics card into a power saving mode.)
I have a Nagios server with a lot of hosts and services; around 400 services (in all) and 150 hosts. Most of these services are programmed in bash language. The problem is the server has a high load average; between 5 and 11. The server has the next features:
- Intel Xeon 2.66GHz Dual Core
- 4MB cache memory
- 1GB RAM memory
- 50GB hard disk
Is this load average normal? Should I program the plugins with C?
I just wonder if anyone can give some hint regarding my problem. I have a server based on RHEL 4.4.What I have noticed is that server load average is raising in approx. 7-10 days by approx. 7, even if has very low CPU utilization, memory utilization on approx 80% and low on I/O stats.Linux apollo 2.6.9-67.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Nov 7 13:58:04 EST 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
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Server is used as compilator / build machine to build aplication from source code stored in IBM Rational clearcase envinronment, and as a test server to test those builds with network equipment. Does anyone can tell what could be causing this behaviour?
I have several CentOS 32-bit VMs running on ESX 4. Those that were updated to the most current patch level ("yum update", accepting all updates available last week) started showing load average of ~0.4 when completely idle. After comparing the problematic VMs with those that show zero load average at idle, and then modifying them in all kinds of ways, I narrowed it down to the combination of a recent kernel patch (2.6.18-164 is fine, 2.6.18-194 is not) and E1000 network adapter. Replacing the network adapter on a problematic VM with VMXNET3 fixes the load statistics.
View 3 Replies View RelatedWe have a server that is running RHEL4 that occasionally spikes in load average above 10 and we have no idea what is causing it. We would like to know if there are any free tools or a script that when the load average hits a certain point it will trigger the system to start logging the processes to see what is happening. Usually by the time we get logged into the system the load average is on its way down. If someone has a better idea please let me know.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI'm new to the linux world and its been quit sometime since i've done any programming. However, I'm writing a program which simply calculates the load average of a process. In doing this I need to use the uptime command for linux in a java program. I've done a little bit of searching on the net and it mentions this is possiable by using java runtime command. Unfortunatly though I have yet to find a working example of this. I've tried just simply reading the /proc/uptime file but I have no clue how to format the 2 numbers in seconds to make it the same as if you just typed in uptime in the linux command prompt.
View 2 Replies View RelatedFor reasons I won't get into, I need to copy directories so long as the average system load is low. Can someone help me write a BASH script that will copy the contents of a directory, but check to make sure the average system load is below X before copying each file, and if not, wait Y seconds and try again?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI'm runnig the server with OpenSUSE 11.4 installed and the "load average" is always almost the same:load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.05But cpu% usage during the day is definately more than 30%. The same thing is on another server with default kernel 2.6.37.1-1.2-desktop also.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI've tried the bug-reporting tool in Gnome to no avail so far. This isn't a huge problem, more a cosmetic one. I'm running Squeeze beta 2, which was a fresh install. I have a Maxtor USB portable HD, which I use to back up personal data. It auto-mounts fine, as soon as I connect it. I have full read-write access from my regular user account; but when I'm finished accessing it, when I right-click and select "Safely remove" I get an error every time. The error has to do with "unable to unmount . . . ." and I wish I had the exact text but I don't. Anyway, when I open a terminal and check the mount point, the drive *has* unmounted, so I'm not worried about data loss. But why the error? BTW, the drive is formatted as one partition with NTFS.
I'm not looking for an answer so much as I am just trying to see that someone involved in trying to get Squeeze ready to release hears about this. It's no big deal, but it looks bad.
Quick background: the office in my shop is just a partitioned area so is subject to temperature and dust, just as the workshop area is. I've upgraded my desktop from an AMD Phenom II X4 955 which used to suffer overheating problems (despite regular cleaning) to an AMD FX-6300 on a Gigabyte 970A-D3P motherboard. For cooling I've fitted a Cooler Master Hyper TX3, plus various fans. Fresh install of Debian 8.3.
The cooler has certainly solved the overheating issues and the machine runs very quietly, rather than sounding like a 747 at take-off. But I'm now having some problems getting consistent reporting on temperatures.
The BIOS reports temperatures from the CPU which seem to be fairly consistently in the mid to high 30s (C).
lm-sensors and hddtemp have been installed.
sensors-detect reports (just the last section)
Code: Select allNow follows a summary of the probes I have just done.
Just press ENTER to continue:
Driver `k10temp' (autoloaded):
* Chip `AMD Family 15h thermal sensors' (confidence: 9)
Driver `fam15h_power' (autoloaded):
* Chip `AMD Family 15h power sensors' (confidence: 9)
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psensor identifies AMD CPU and the NVidia GPU, apparently correctly, as it does the HDDs.
So, my problem is that the CPU temps reported by psensor and the panel app vary quite significantly with those that are reported in the BIOS. My thinking is that the BIOS is correct and that the software is either misreporting the temperatures or using the wrong sensors.
On the old machine I used to get a temperature from each core, just like in the BIOS, but now I'm only getting a single CPU reading.
I've installed Debian6 Testing KDE4 using a net-inst CD when it is recently released. Today , I did a aptitude clean && aptitude update && aptitude upgrade and got a weird output.
aptitude clean && aptitude update
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Current status: 62 updates [+61], 1561 new [+270].
There are 7 newly obsolete packages: librasqal2, libwpd8c2a, libwpg-0.1-1, libwps-0.1-1, openoffice.org-base-core, openoffice.org-core, openoffice.org-report-builder-bin
aptitude upgrade
Resolving dependencies...
open: 42543; closed: 32760; defer: 49; conflict: 8
The open/closed figures is still running (higher) after 10 minutes.
Believe I am not the only one using Debian Testing with KDE4.
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Using the spam reporting thread? Using the "Report this post" button? Or both?