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Keeping F5 (refresh button) pressed leads to high apache server load

We are running a forum software (Woltlab Burning Board) on our server and found out that if at least two users keep reloading the website very quick (keeping F5 button pressed), the server load goes ...
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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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Laggy server, seems iptables is doing the load

I added a few thousand IPs packed in multiple /24 classes to a CentOS box and because of that I am getting scanned day and night. Since this server will be a workhorse and it will only need to be ...
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cannot find high load cause

I cannot find high load cause. CPU usage is not high. Maybe disk is causing high i/o, but disk utilization is not that high too. The peaks around 4:30am is backup time and not that important.
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Load average relation to cpu threads and cpu cores

Is load average related to CPU ThreadS OR CPU core? i am having a xenon cpu with 8 cores and 16 threads. How much can be the acceptable load average? Sometimes Load AVerage reaches 11. so does ...
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Ubuntu Server 12.04 CPU Load

I have a Server (2x Hexa-Core Xeon E5649 2.53GHz w/HT with 32GB RAM and 20000 GB Bandwidth) running Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS. The server runs LAMP and serves one website only, the estimated number of ...
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how to control system load of a particular process? eg. Java

So Java has been hanging our systems. Our developers are still looking into this but as an Admin what can be done. On a dual socket system with altogether 8 cores, Load peaks at 40's.. On average ...
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Ubuntu: irqbalance - new install - does it need a reboot?

Ubuntu 10.04 kernel 2.6.36 some of our VPS's were crashing the last few days due to cpu load with Java (cpu_hung for 120 seconds errors on console) installing irqbalance seems to have resolved the ...
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Load Average cpu linux server

i have a problem with the load average on server, I'm using on server When I check the processor - with "top" command I see that : top - 04:27:37 up 39 min, 1 user, load average: 0.78, 0.77, 0.77 ...
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proceses cpu load history

I would ask if there is some linux tool that can track load of each application process and save it to the log file. When something in linux system "eat" CPU to 100% and I want see what happend and ...
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LINUX Load average

My server Load jump high up top 22, CPU just 50%, RAM 1858/5120. How to know what process couse so high load average. Linux Debian
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Extreme CPU load [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How Can Linux Top Show 2% Idle, but Load Say 1.20? Something strange has suddenly happend and I need help. top shows only 1 running process with >300 waiting. CPU load ...
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How to troubleshoot a jump in CPU load?

If monitoring shows a jump in CPU load on your main production server and the box is slow to respond, what actions should I take? What commands should I run or how do I troubleshoot this?
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High CPU load but top processes in top all around 0%

We have a server with unusual high load and cpu util, but we can't figure out why. When we run top all the procs seem to be very low cpu. http://cl.ly/2d1g0K3q261r0R0K3e35 Is there a better way to ...
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LAMP stack on 64bit, 16 core box chews up 100% CPU

===SOLVED=== This issue was solved. Turns out that ImageMagick has trouble with multiple CPUs. Compiling ImageMagick to use one CPU solved the problem. ================ I added a new web server as ...
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EC2 instance CPU in thousands

I started a new instance (c1.medium) and top show some crazy cpu usage PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 9561 ubuntu 20 0 84888 ...
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How to Best Manage High PostgreSQL CPU Use?

I am trying to fix a high PostgreSQL CPU use problem. We are using PostgreSQL 8.0.9 and when our JEE web application (in JBoss) is used in certain load increase conditions, top shows a slow increase ...
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High Load - Low IO - Low CPU usage

I have a system whose load is rather high. As you can see from the top output below, CPU usage and I/O is negligible: top - 17:31:59 up 4 days, 2:34, 2 users, load average: 1.00, 0.99, 1.00 ...
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Server high CPU load issue! ( Cpanel + CentOS 5)

Our server cpu load is high todays sometimes reaches to 560! .. We have the lastest Cpanel/whm and the kernel is update!while the load average is : Load Averages: 39.05 75.01 45.33 the apache log ...
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Linux testing - CPU & disk

I am a bit rusty lately. What is the standard way to test CPU and disk I/O these days?