The system load average is 16.57

Hi

I receive this message with different levels of load. How can I solve this and what's happening? Thanks!

This is an automated message notifying you that the 5 minute load average on your system is 16.57.
This has exceeded the 10 threshold.

One Minute - 0.42
Five Minutes - 16.57
Fifteen Minutes - 35.05

top - 05:46:01 up 17 days, 23:42, 0 users, load average: 0.42, 16.57, 35.05
Tasks: 186 total, 1 running, 185 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 2.7%us, 0.8%sy, 0.0%ni, 96.0%id, 0.4%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 1550676k total, 883808k used, 666868k free, 11456k buffers
Swap: 4194300k total, 847516k used, 3346784k free, 84796k cached

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
1 root 20 0 21276 168 24 S 0.0 0.0 0:01.76 /sbin/init
2 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 [kthreadd]
3 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:02.43 [migration/0]
4 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:04.15 [ksoftirqd/0]
5 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 [stopper/0]
6 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:01.88 [watchdog/0]
7 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:02.58 [migration/1]
8 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 [stopper/1]
9 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:04.89 [ksoftirqd/1]
10 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:01.46 [watchdog/1]
11 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 13:10.52 [events/0]
12 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 1:25.59 [events/1]
13 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 [events/0]
14 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 [events/1]
15 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 [events_long/0]
16 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 [events_long/1]
17 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 [events_power_ef]
18 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 [events_power_ef]
19 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 [cgroup]
20 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 [khelper]
21 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 [netns]
22 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 [async/mgr]
23 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 [pm]


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Hello,

Please search and read the existing similar threads: https://www.google.com/search?q=high+server+load+site:forum.directadmin.com first.

zEitEr said:

Hello,

Please search and read the existing similar threads: https://www.google.com/search?q=high+server+load+site:forum.directadmin.com first.

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Thanks for your reply. You are right but I couldn't find out the problem since to my knowledge, everything looks fine. I have seen you help others in the other threads, so if you had the time, please help. Thanks

If you've seen the other threads then you know a list of suggested tools to be used for investigation. And without more information/details we can't help you here.