I am running a LAMP stack on an 8 core VPS (on Digital Ocean). I am seeing extremely high load average numbers (in the 150 range - see below), while the server does not seem to be overloaded at all (it's quite responsive). From what I understand, a load average of about 8 on an 8 core machine means that it is running at all its capacity. Hence, how to interpret such high numbers that I am seeing?
iotop
output look like? (You may have to install this)taskset
/numactl
?top
, hit1
to see the load of each CPU