Load on the server

[sokolkapl]

Hi,

I have a 512MB VPS along with DirectAdmin installed on it, with 2 websites getting about 1.5k visits total (both are mysql driven).

Could someone tell me, based on the "top" output below, is my server is overloaded/underloaded?

How many visits do you think this server could handle on 2 database driven sites? (Wordpress)


top - 10:37:40 up 7 days, 18:32, 0 users, load average: 0.02, 0.03, 0.00
Tasks: 137 total, 1 running, 136 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 0.5%us, 0.1%sy, 0.0%ni, 99.2%id, 0.2%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 524288k total, 510708k used, 13580k free, 15884k buffers
Swap: 1048568k total, 35740k used, 1012828k free, 224992k cached

 

[ranz]

surely this answers your question:

load average: 0.02, 0.03, 0.00

Based on those figures - your server could handle a lot more traffic. However, it isn't a simple task of multiplication to work it out. You have to consider what resources the VPS host has allocated - especially in terms of CPU.

The measurement of TOP alone cannot be trusted as a whole to make your decision.

 

[nobaloney]

Note that top gives you a 15-minute average. I'm sure your serverload looks different at different times of day.

Never trust one snapshot.

Jeff

 

[floyd]

sar -q will give you the load averages for every 10 minutes starting at midnight.