Warning: The system load average is 12.43

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Now can any one help me what is this and how we can check and maintain.

I am new to direct admin.

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top - 17:10:19 up 7 days, 13:35,  0 users,  load average: 12.43, 4.68, 1.96
Tasks:  90 total,   1 running,  89 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  0.8%us,  0.2%sy,  0.0%ni, 98.4%id,  0.6%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st


 PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND            
3583 apache    16   0  101m  15m 2884 S 15.6  1.0   0:00.12 httpd              
3733 apache    16   0  101m  15m 2992 S 15.6  1.0   0:00.11 httpd              
1979 apache    16   0 96976 9480 3280 S  5.9  0.6   0:00.17 httpd              
1409 apache    15   0 96768 9356 3296 S  3.9  0.6   0:00.20 httpd              
3535 apache    15   0 95680 8520 3244 S  2.0  0.6   0:00.14 httpd              
   1 root      15   0 10352  628  600 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.89 init               
1380 apache    16   0 93488 5032 2448 S  0.0  0.3   0:00.01 httpd              
1404 apache    15   0 95704 8616 3316 S  0.0  0.6   0:00.15 httpd              
1519 apache    16   0 96252 9292 3428 S  0.0  0.6   0:00.29 httpd              
1521 root      18   0 46000 1192  888 S  0.0  0.1   0:00.00 crond              
1977 apache    15   0 95704 8616 3316 S  0.0  0.6   0:00.12 httpd              
1996 apache    15   0 95704 8616 3316 S  0.0  0.6   0:00.13 httpd              
1997 apache    18   0 93616 5092 2452 S  0.0  0.3   0:00.01 httpd              
1999 apache    16   0  102m  17m 3332 S  0.0  1.2   0:00.17 httpd              
2000 apache    16   0 96272 9180 3312 S  0.0  0.6   0:00.13 httpd              
3112 diradmin  18   0 48608 2588 2096 D  0.0  0.2   0:00.01 dataskq            
3364 root      18   0 46000 1192  888 S  0.0  0.1   0:00.00 crond              
3402 apache    16   0 93216 4860 2452 S  0.0  0.3   0:00.00 httpd              
3536 apache    15   0  101m  15m 3136 S  0.0  1.1   0:00.13 httpd              
3572 root      18   0 48608 2536 2056 S  0.0  0.2   0:00.01 dataskq            
3582 apache    16   0  101m  15m 3020 S  0.0  1.0   0:00.14 httpd              
3669 dovecot   15   0 38172 1480 1480 S  0.0  0.1   0:00.00 pop3-login         
3775 dovecot   15   0 38172 1480 1480 S  0.0  0.1   0:00.00 pop3-login         


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Are you trying to determine why your server has a high load average? There's often no easy way to find out. In this case I'd simply restart apache from the DirectAdmin control panel. It'll probably solve the problem, at least temporarily.

Since the message you got doesn't tell us the memory usage, I can't say it's a memory issue.

If you can run top from your shell login, then kill it and post the top lines through the memory usage, it may be easier to resolve.

Jeff
 
That is probably because of a lot of connection in CLOSE_WAIT... i have this problem and nothing seems to solve it...
To check if this is your case too try this in your server console when it happens:

netstat -a | grep CLOSE_WAIT
 
You could try to optimise the pre_fork entry for Apache.

Another person had a load of ~70, I helped him optimise Apache & MySQL, and the load came down between 5 and 10.

Not sure if its the same scenario as him.
 
Hi Peter Laws,that person is me,,I want to thank you again for your help.
Now I have a new server,, larger, more powerful
But again I get this damn message:
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Can you please tell me how I solve this? So please consider that I do not really understand it,, so please have a simple guide!!
Thank you
 
you guys really need to post up the needed info in order to help in these issues.

to start with a complete top printout, server specs, sites on the server, bandwidth etc.

It's like shooting at stars without the information needed.

also if this server was running fine before and when the issue started.
 
@asishlla:

Note what R1Lover and Peter Laws wrote above. Depending on the power available on your server (the output of top will give us a good place to start looking) the server specs will help as well) it may very well be that 17 and higher load average isn't too high.

Jeff
 
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