nealdxmhost
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A server I manage was hit with an incredibly high load this morning that nearly brought it to its knees.
Details on the server:
Dell Poweredge R710 with 8 300GB SAS drives in a RAID10 configuration to include FOUR hot spares, 24 GB RAM, 2 E5620 CPU
OS CENTOS 6.6
DA Custombuild 2.0
CSF and BFM installed
Two wordpress sites running on it along with two installations of WHMCS
Here is what I got this morning:
Details on the server:
Dell Poweredge R710 with 8 300GB SAS drives in a RAID10 configuration to include FOUR hot spares, 24 GB RAM, 2 E5620 CPU
OS CENTOS 6.6
DA Custombuild 2.0
CSF and BFM installed
Two wordpress sites running on it along with two installations of WHMCS
Here is what I got this morning:
Code:
This is an automated message notifying you that the 5 minute load average on your system is 117.1.
This has exceeded the 10 threshold.
One Minute - 353.8
Five Minutes - 117.1
Fifteen Minutes - 41.99
top - 08:26:43 up 21 days, 3:38, 0 users, load average: 353.80, 117.10, 41.99
Tasks: 786 total, 13 running, 773 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 0.3%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 99.7%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 49409432k total, 9380944k used, 40028488k free, 408564k buffers
Swap: 24772604k total, 0k used, 24772604k free, 1219588k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
13 root 20 0 0 0 0 R 100.0 0.0 4:46.82 [ksoftirqd/2]
45 root 20 0 0 0 0 R 100.0 0.0 6:51.79 [ksoftirqd/10]
53 root 20 0 0 0 0 R 100.0 0.0 4:45.32 [ksoftirqd/12]
65 root 20 0 0 0 0 R 100.0 0.0 6:48.06 [ksoftirqd/15]
17 root 20 0 0 0 0 R 99.3 0.0 4:45.70 [ksoftirqd/3]
61 root 20 0 0 0 0 R 99.3 0.0 4:45.47 [ksoftirqd/14]
67 root 20 0 0 0 0 R 99.3 0.0 4:05.24 [events/0]
25913 root 20 0 15560 1684 828 R 3.8 0.0 0:00.03 /usr/bin/top -c -b -n 1
1 root 20 0 19364 1548 1232 S 0.0 0.0 0:04.79 /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 0:00.14 [migration/0]
4 root 20 0 0 0 0 R 0.0 0.0 3:43.25 [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 0:02.08 [watchdog/0]
7 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.02 [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 0:04.07 [ksoftirqd/1]
10 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:01.43 [watchdog/1]
11 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.53 [migration/2]
12 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 [stopper/2]
14 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 2:02.74 [watchdog/2]
15 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.07 [migration/3]
16 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 [stopper/3]
