System Load Warning question

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jlpeifer

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I've recently started receiving these emails every 10 minutes. It has been going on for days. My VM provider says he doesn't see any unusual CPU/Memory/Disk activity on my machine. Websites seem just as responsive as normal. The reported "load average" in the messages typically never goes above 14.

Can someone please help me decipher what's being reported here... and perhaps provide some insight into what (if anything) is taxing my system?

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This is an automated message notifying you that the 5 minute load average on your system is 12.06.

This has exceeded the 10 threshold.


One Minute      - 12.21

Five Minutes    - 12.06

Fifteen Minutes - 11.94


top - 06:18:01 up 2 days, 11:43,  0 users,  load average: 12.21, 12.06, 11.94

Tasks: 132 total,   1 running, 131 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie

%Cpu(s):  0.1 us,  0.0 sy,  0.0 ni, 99.9 id,  0.0 wa,  0.0 hi,  0.0 si,  0.0 st

KiB Mem :  1572864 total,  1222928 free,   215132 used,   134804 buff/cache

KiB Swap:        0 total,        0 free,        0 used.  1357732 avail Mem


PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S  %CPU %MEM     TIME+ COMMAND

   1 root      20   0   56968   2084   1728 S   0.0  0.1   0:09.73 /sbin/init

  40 root      20   0  378256  10544  10384 S   0.0  0.7   0:38.11 /lib/systemd/systemd-journald

  63 root      20   0   27992   1120   1036 S   0.0  0.1   0:01.14 /usr/sbin/cron -f

  64 root      20   0   22360    332    332 S   0.0  0.0   0:00.00 /usr/sbin/pure-certd -r /usr/local/bin/pureftpd_sni.sh -s /var/run/pure-certd.sock

  65 root      20   0   37980   1440   1332 S   0.0  0.1   0:02.31 /lib/systemd/systemd-logind

  66 message+  20   0   45208   1384   1216 S   0.0  0.1   0:05.28 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system --address=systemd: --nofork --nopidfile --systemd-activation

  71 root      20   0  250112   1360   1144 S   0.0  0.1   0:09.67 /usr/sbin/rsyslogd -n

122 mail      20   0   46108   1700   1580 S   0.0  0.1   0:00.46 /usr/sbin/exim -bd -q1h

123 clamav    20   0  201484   1324   1324 S   0.0  0.1   0:02.61 /usr/bin/freshclam -d --foreground=true

127 root      20   0   71280   3232   3112 S   0.0  0.2   0:07.09 /usr/sbin/httpd -DFOREGROUND

129 root      20   0   23844   1384   1220 S   0.0  0.1   0:01.67 /usr/sbin/dovecot -F

131 mysql     20   0    9764    912    908 S   0.0  0.1   0:00.03 /bin/sh /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqld_safe --datadir=/usr/local/mysql/data --pid-file=/usr/local/mysql/data/mysqld.pid --socket=/usr/local/mysql/data/mysql.sock

135 root      20   0  180652   2224   2080 S   0.0  0.1   0:15.57 php-fpm: master process (/usr/local/php73/etc/php-fpm.conf)

152 root      20   0   12656    860    860 S   0.0  0.1   0:00.00 /sbin/agetty --noclear --keep-baud tty2 115200,38400,9600 linux

153 root      20   0   12656    860    860 S   0.0  0.1   0:00.00 /sbin/agetty --noclear --keep-baud tty1 115200,38400,9600 linux

154 root      20   0   12656    860    860 S   0.0  0.1   0:00.00 /sbin/agetty --noclear --keep-baud console 115200,38400,9600 linux

156 root      20   0   20544   1376   1176 S   0.0  0.1   0:03.66 /usr/local/directadmin/da-popb4smtp

158 root      20   0   32796   1564   1564 S   0.0  0.1   0:00.00 /usr/sbin/pure-ftpd /etc/pure-ftpd.conf

159 root      20   0   69956   1516   1392 S   0.0  0.1   0:06.55 /usr/sbin/sshd -D

164 nobody    20   0   35428    944    936 S   0.0  0.1   0:00.20 /usr/local/directadmin/directadmin d

183 dovecot   20   0   13256   1636   1428 S   0.0  0.1   0:00.40 dovecot/anvil [50 connections]

324 dovecot   20   0   26876   1584   1584 S   0.0  0.1   0:00.00 dovecot/pop3-login

824 dovecot   20   0   26884   1836   1780 S   0.0  0.1   0:00.00 dovecot/imap-login


Connection counts:

     1 103.112.3.63

     1 104.196.17.15

     1 119.29.104.205

     1 123.207.52.90

     4 174.59.197.127

    13 178.198.35.46


IP '178.198.35.46' currently has '13' connections


Connection info for '178.198.35.46':

tcp        0      0 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:143     178.198.35.46:63874     ESTABLISHED

tcp        0      0 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:993     178.198.35.46:57675     ESTABLISHED

tcp        0      0 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:993     178.198.35.46:57679     ESTABLISHED

tcp        0      0 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:993     178.198.35.46:57716     ESTABLISHED

tcp        0      0 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:143     178.198.35.46:64700     ESTABLISHED

tcp        0      0 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:143     178.198.35.46:65148     ESTABLISHED

tcp        0      0 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:143     178.198.35.46:49462     ESTABLISHED

tcp        0      0 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:993     178.198.35.46:57678     ESTABLISHED

tcp        0      0 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:143     178.198.35.46:61149     ESTABLISHED

tcp        0      0 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:143     178.198.35.46:49516     ESTABLISHED

tcp        0      0 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:993     178.198.35.46:57708     ESTABLISHED

tcp        0      0 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:993     178.198.35.46:57710     ESTABLISHED

tcp        0      0 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:993     178.198.35.46:57680     ESTABLISHED


Top Memory Usage:

mysql     2567  0.0  5.1 3968272 80920 ?       Sl   Apr06   3:00 /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqld --basedir=/usr/local/mysql --datadir=/usr/local/mysql/data --plugin-dir=/usr/local/mysql/lib/plugin --log-error=/usr/local/mysql/data/hosting.err --pid-file=/usr/local/mysql/data/mysqld.pid --socket=/usr/local/mysql/data/mysql.sock

apache    2248  0.0  1.2 6914992 19476 ?       Sl   00:11   0:30 /usr/sbin/httpd -DFOREGROUND

root        40  0.0  0.6 378256 10544 ?        Ss   Apr04   0:38 /lib/systemd/systemd-journald

help     23517  0.0  0.6  72964 10276 ?        S    04:02   0:01 dovecot/imap [ 178.198.35.46 IDLE]

root     31735  0.0  0.4  72344  7196 ?        Ss   00:00   0:14 lfd - sleeping

root      4137  0.0  0.3  42388  4720 ?        S    06:17   0:00 dovecot/auth worker: USER

help     25071  0.0  0.3  48956  5428 ?        S    04:18   0:00 dovecot/lmtp [local READY]

help      3237  0.0  0.3  42220  5712 ?        S    06:07   0:00 dovecot/imap [ 178.198.35.46]

root      4136  0.0  0.2  30272  4532 ?        S    06:17   0:00 dovecot/lmtp -L

root       127  0.0  0.2  71280  3232 ?        Ss   Apr04   0:07 /usr/sbin/httpd -DFOREGROUND


Virtual Memory Info:

procs -----------------------memory---------------------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system-- --------cpu-------- -----timestamp-----

r  b         swpd         free         buff        cache   si   so    bi    bo   in   cs  us  sy  id  wa  st                 UTC

13  0            0      1223068            0       135068   53   78   422  1663    1    1   0   0 100   0   0 2021-04-07 06:18:01

9  0            0      1222940            0       135068    0    0     0   468 7533 32070   0   0 100   0   0 2021-04-07 06:18:02

11  0            0      1222940            0       135068    0    0     0   988 7045 31207   0   0 100   0   0 2021-04-07 06:18:03


Current MySQL Queries

1 system user NULL Daemon NULL InnoDB purge coordinator NULL 0.000

2 system user NULL Daemon NULL InnoDB purge worker NULL 0.000

3 system user NULL Daemon NULL InnoDB purge worker NULL 0.000

4 system user NULL Daemon NULL InnoDB purge worker NULL 0.000

5 system user NULL Daemon NULL InnoDB shutdown handler NULL 0.000

8482 da_admin localhost NULL Query 0 init SHOW FULL PROCESSLIST 0.000
 
It need to check from "top"

But I think, you got high load from mysql

You have 2 choice to fix
- tuning mysql
- increase load checker

if you want to try second choice

Version 1.36.0 | Directadmin Docs

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I recommend to set "check_load_minute" from 1 to 5
eg. 1 , 5, 10, 15, ... , 25

So you can set only with value "5multiply"
 
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SOLVED-ish. Frankly I don't know what I did to correct the issue. I noticed while observing "top" that a couple of services were spiking the CPU and Memory usage. Specifically php-fpm73 and mysqld. I noticed via Custombuild 2.0 that a minor update was available for php, so updated it. Additionally, I restarted the mysqld service. Soon after doing this my load average dropped from the 13's to below 1. I haven't received a Load Warning since.
 
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