Server load

[sky]

Hi all.

I normaly have a server load of around 0.3.

Since this 1/2 hours, im at 1.0 or 1.2 ...
is that 100% and more?

When i login ssh i type top :
30549 apache 25 0 8760 3756 5012 R 99.6 0.8 3319:38 perl

Perl seem to be using 99.6% of the cpu...

I dont even use perl on any of the website hosted on the server...

Thx for your help,

Sky

 

[sky]

But, even so it the cpu% is at nearly 100%, all website seam to be ok...

 

[sky]

Whe i try a : ps aux

i find this line :

apache 30549 98.5 0.7 8760 3756 ? R Dec15 3349:30 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd

(cpu % : 98.5)

 

[nobaloney]

I normaly have a server load of around 0.3.

Since this 1/2 hours, im at 1.0 or 1.2 ...
is that 100% and more?

No. As mentioned previously in these forums, server load refers to the average number of processes waiting at any given time for the processor, by the scheduler built into the kernel.

Perl seem to be using 99.6% of the cpu...

At any given time perl can be using a large percentage of the available CPU cycles; it's very processor intensive. But server loads of 1.0 (in fact all the way up to 5.0) are usually nothing to worry about.

I dont even use perl on any of the website hosted on the server...

You don't, but exim does, and SpamAssassin does.

Jeff

 

[sky]

Ok, i have just added spamAssasin.
I suppose its that.

I restarted the srever to see. Now, all is back to normal..

Thx for your reply.
Sky