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Ubuntu 12.04 KVM host high load with idle ubuntu 12.04 guests

I am stuck with this one. Clean install Ubuntu 12.04 server 64bit on two physical machines. Machines are identical except one has 8GB RAM and the problem machine has 32GB RAM, both machines were ...
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cassandra compaction high load

Since last night I am seeing CPU load spikes on our cassandra boxes(Occasionally load goes up to 20, its a Amazon EC2 c1.xlarge with 300 iops EBS). After digging around a little I believe its related ...
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Determine php script causing MySQL huge load

I'm running a young non-profit organization aiming at providing free and low cost web hosting. Since few days, our server load is around 1.5, sometimes raising to 7. top shows me that MySQL is the ...
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Is it worth to set up a different network interface for connections to MySQL?

I have a high load website served by two servers: web server with nginx and php, and database server with mysql. Web server serves all the static content and connects to MySQL and outside world ...
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vmstat - context switches ok? [closed]

I am rather new to this tool and server optimization so my eye is not trained yet. Could someone give me a reading of these stats output by vmstat and let me know whether the context switches (or ...
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DRBD + OCFS2 high load when copying. Troubleshooting?

I have a dual primary DRBD + OCFS2 setup for web serving and generally it works very nicely. I can however get the load to spike to 40 - 50+ by say extracting a large tar file or rsyncing several ...
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How to graph the web server load by using the nginx logs with response time?

I want to analyse if certain type of requests do have an important impact on the server. My backend service is behind nginx which logs all requests including the time needed to get the response. Now ...
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Prevent heavy server query to overload Apache/Mysql

I have some questions about understanding high server load and implement some type of load balancing in a common scenario with solutions like Apache and MySQL and PHP 5. I am benninger in the matter ...
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High Load Average with modest CPU Utilization and almost no IO

The usual explanation for high load average with little cpu use under linux is too much IO (or more properly uninterruptable sleep). I have a service running on a cluster of 2-core VMs that exhibit ...
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Weird issue - websites on SSL load normally during high loads?

Sort of a strange question, but what is the difference between SSL (https) and non-SSL (http) websites when there is a high load on the server? I actually encounter high loads from time to time, a ...
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Linux NIC bonding failure; strange CPU load

Note: An update as been added below I'm having a very strange issue with a Linux server (Debian 6.0.6) using 802.3ad NIC bonding. Occasionally all of the NICs in the bond get marked as down and the ...
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GlusterFs - high load 90-107% CPU

I try and try and try to performance and fix problem with gluster, i try all. I served on gluster webpages, php files, images etc. I have problem after update from 3.3.0 to 3.3.1. I try 3.4 when i ...
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My server crashes and I've checked everything: what's left?

I have an m1.medium Amazon EC2 instance running Apache and hosting a Wordpress blog. In turn, Wordpress works with a MySQL database over on a different EC2 instance. The Wordpress site has W3 Total ...
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Apache compromised now high cpu usage? [duplicate]

Over the weekend one of the virtual servers that I host was compromised and since then I've had all sorts of problems popping up. The latest one is Apache taking 100% cpu usage as soon as it's ...
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High server load - [jbd2/md1-8] using 99.99% IO

I've been having spike in load over the last week. This usually occurs once or twice a day. I've managed to identify from iotop that [jbd2/md1-8] is using 99.99 % IO. During the high load times there ...
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How to track traffic tidal wave on Amazon EC2 instance? [duplicate]

I have an Amazon EC2 web server that talks to a second database server instance... the web site is for a TV show, so the site tends to run a normal load of traffic until it's mentioned on the air and ...
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Why my Apache Server Load is very high? [closed]

I have a Apache server running php website, the following is the System information PHP Handler: FastCGI Server load 3.8 (4 CPUs) Memory Used 17.48% (725,720 of 4,151,400) Swap Used 5.97% ...
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How do we configure Lustre to block client requests when under load, rather than failing?

We are using Lustre in a cluster with approximately 200TB of storage, 12 Object Storage Targets (that connect to a DDN storage system using QDR Infiniband), and roughly 160 quad and 8-core compute ...
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Linux high load with ImageMagick convert utility and server freezes (blktrack output attached)

I'm using ImageMagick to convert a JPG to TIF file, and I'm using the limit options for Imagemagick as below: /usr/bin/convert -limit memory 256 -limit map 512 subjectfile.jpg -colorspace Gray -depth ...
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CentOS server high load and server freezes

My server seems to get sudden high loads within second and when I run dmesg, following logs appear: INFO: task auditd:2185 blocked for more than 120 seconds. "echo 0 > ...
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High load cause? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: what is my server high load cause (4 cores and 8 thread cpu) What is my high load cause? CPU,RAM or IO? 4 Core, 8 thread cpu top - 22:27:07 up 149 days, 5:26, 1 ...
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High Load Average and High CPU usage make the CRM Slow

top: 12:49:59 up 49 days, 14:07, 3 users, load average: 7.55, 7.24, 7.37 Tasks: 300 total, 25 running, 263 sleeping, 0 stopped, 12 zombie Cpu(s): 91.9%us, 8.1%sy, 0.0%ni, 0.0%id, 0.0%wa, ...
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Load avg weirdness on Linux Ubuntu

In past few days I've been trying to understand the weirdness which is happening in our infrastructure but I haven't been able to figure it our so I'm turning to you guys to give me some hints. I've ...
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what is my server high load cause (4 cores and 8 thread cpu)

What should i do if I want to prevent this high load. My website becomes slow when load is higher than 8. Please see iotop result too. top - 20:23:10 up 127 days, 3:22, 1 user, load average: ...
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How to choose a correct value for open_file_cache in nginx configuration?

I have a website with load of about 60 000 requests per minute served by nginx. Recently, I have enabled the open file cache and saw a dramatic improvement in performance. But in the evenenings, when ...
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Nginx and php-fpm fails with high load: “Possible SYN flooding on port 80” and “104: Connection reset by peer”

I have quite heavy loaded web server using: Ubuntu server nginx php-fpm + apc Yesterday something wierd happened with my server. It crashed and stopped responding and after I rebooted it, web pages ...
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High Server Load cannot figure out why [closed]

My server is currently running CentOS 5.2, with WHM 11.34. Currently, we're at 6.43 to 12 for a load average. The sites that we're hosting are taking a lot time to respond and resolve. top doesn't ...
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HA Proxy - roundrobin vs leastconn

Are there any suggestion on when should I use roundrobin & when should I use leastconn? I am using roundrobin currently and observed the loading of my back-end servesr are not evenly ...
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High Load average in Linux kernel 2.6.26 even cpu time is available?

I have 2 machine. both the machine I have kernal 2.6.26. Both machines are getting more then 300 load averages even cpu idle time is 80%-90%. In the wa column also very less. The followings are top ...
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Linux Tuning for High Traffic JBoss Server with LDAP Binds [closed]

I'm configuring a high traffic Linux server (RedHat) and running into a limit I haven't been able to track down. I need to be able to handle sustained 300 requests per second throughput using Nginx ...
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How to trigger killing of apache child processes on higher system load?

I'm having a Debian with WordPress on Apache, which gets pretty nasty spikes in load from time to time, leading to hanging on of the whole server. I've played a bit with some of the apache ...
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High load average due to high system cpu load (%sys)

We have server with high traffic website. Recently we moved from 2 x 4 core server (8 cores in /proc/cpuinfo), 32 GB RAM, running CentOS 5.x, to 2 x 4 core server (16 cores in /proc/cpuinfo), 32 GB ...
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CPU0 is swamped with eth1 interrupts

I've got an Ubuntu VM, running inside Ubuntu-based Xen XCP. It hosts a custom FCGI-based HTTP service, behind nginx. Under load from ab the first CPU core is saturated, and the rest is under-loaded. ...
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Uneven CPU core utilization

tl;dr: First CPU core is consistently saturated, all other cores are consistently under-loaded. A VM, inside Ubuntu-based Xen XCP: $ uname -a Linux MYHOST 2.6.38-15-virtual #59-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr ...
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How to choose NoSQL database engine?

We have a database with following specs: 30k records, 7mb in size 20 inserts/second 1000 updates/second 1000 range selects/second, by secondary index, approx 10 rows each needs at least one ...
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How to reduce server load without killing processes?

I am running a CentOS 6 VPS with WHM/cPanel. I am trying to move some accounts, to reduce load, so I have to run /scripts/pkgacct, however the gzip and other processes run by this script cause a very ...
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VPNC eats 100% CPU and strange output by strace

top - 21:02:03 up 28 days, 7:34, 1 user, load average: 1.00, 1.01, 1.05 Tasks: 95 total, 2 running, 93 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 1.4%us, 13.8%sy, 0.0%ni, 81.6%id, 3.2%wa, ...
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Most scalable way of serving a small set of static HTTP content [closed]

The story: Hi guys. I'm among the people responsible for serving the results of the most anticipated (by number of people participating) annual entrance exam in my state. As such, when our results are ...
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Extremely high loads despite Caching

Okay I've got a nice dedicated server running CentOs 6 with 16gb of ram, dual xenon processors, etc. However I've been experiencing high loads due to mysql. Randomly the load will go below 1.0, and ...
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ksoftirqd hitting 100% on interface with ixgbe driver

This is my driver information. ethtool -i ethXX driver: ixgbe version: 3.9.15-NAPI firmware-version: 0x800000a5 bus-info: 0000:04:00.0 supports-statistics: yes supports-test: yes ...
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Perform action based on load avg

I'm running some web applications on an debian server and have to struggle with ddos attacks sometimes. It's eating up all my resources and I can't ssh anymore into the server. An idea was to drop all ...
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Would Sphinx be a good solution to solve server getting bogged with heavy MySQL reads?

I'm working on a site that I believe gets about 70k visits a day and it makes use of a lot of queries which uses UNION's over about 45 different tables, these tables generally range from about 15k ...
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Very high load, apparently caused by pdflush

I have a server that's running CentOS 5, and it will periodically (a couple of times a day) have enormous spikes in load, and the whole server will grind to a halt. After a couple of minutes, the load ...
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high load average, high wait, dmesg raid error messages (debian nfs server)

Debian 6 on HP proliant (2 CPU) with raid (2*1.5T RAID1 + 2*2T RAID1 joined RAID0 to make 3.5T) running mainly nfs & imapd (plus samba for windows share & local www for previewing web pages); ...
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What is the standard way of providing a servery busy lockout page when server is overloaded?

We have the need to lockout users from our service when its under load to avoid degraded user experience. We have implemented a very rough and ready version of this by detecting errors or timeouts on ...
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How to read network card specs [closed]

i am in the need of buying a rack server which will serve static video files to users. Each video file will be between 30MB and 50MB and we expect up to 16k concurrent users. I was looking for servers ...
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How to know which site/script is taking all CPU and RAM in Plesk/apache

I have more than 100+ domains on a CentOS Plesk server. Suddenly the load on the server goes very high and eats up all resources. eating up all RAM, all CPU , due to which i cannot even login to ...
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No apparent reason for high load average

We have several web servers running on Amazon (ec2) c1.xlarge, over Amazon AMI. The servers are duplicates of each other, running the exact same hardware and software. Each server spec is: 7 GB of ...
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“iostat” command different in two equal machines

We have several machines on Amazon (ec2) of the type c1.xlarge with 8 cpus, running the Amazon AMI. Details on the machine: 7 GB of memory 20 EC2 Compute Units (8 virtual cores with 2.5 EC2 Compute ...
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No clue for high load average on top

We have several machines on Amazon (ec2) of the type c1.xlarge with 16 cpus, running the Amazon AMI. Details on the machine: 7 GB of memory 20 EC2 Compute Units (8 virtual cores with 2.5 EC2 Compute ...

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