lfd: High 5 minute load average alert

[chad101]

Can somebody please tell me what this email means? I have two them, 3 hours apart, in my mail box now

lfd: High 5 minute load average alert

Time:                    Fri May  4 04:13:07 2007
1 Min Load Avg:          6.27

5 Min Load Avg:          6.00

15 Min Load Avg:         5.33
Running/Total Processes: 7/150


Output from ps:
USER       PID %CPU %MEM   VSZ  RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
root         1  0.0  0.0  1512  468 ?        S    Apr17   0:04 init
root         2  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        SW   Apr17   0:00 [keventd]
root         3  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        SW   Apr17   0:00 [kapmd]
root         4  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        SWN  Apr17   0:00 [ksoftirqd/0]
root         7  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        SW   Apr17   0:00 [bdflush]
root         5  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        SW   Apr17   0:25 [kswapd]
root         6  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        SW   Apr17   0:20 [kscand]
root         8  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        SW   Apr17   0:00 [kupdated]
root         9  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        SW   Apr17   0:00 [mdrecoveryd]
root        13  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        SW   Apr17   0:46 [kjournald]
root       301  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        SW   Apr17   0:00 [kjournald]
root       675  0.0  0.0  1588  596 ?        R    Apr17   0:10 syslogd -m 0
root       679  0.0  0.0  1524  460 ?        S    Apr17   0:01 klogd -x
root       712  0.0  0.0  1572  396 ?        S    Apr17   0:00 mdadm --monitor --scan -f
root       778  0.0  0.0  2136  628 ?        S    Apr17   0:00 xinetd -stayalive -pidfile /var/run/xinetd.pid
ntp        792  0.0  0.2  2568 2560 ?        SL   Apr17   0:04 ntpd -U ntp -p /var/run/ntpd.pid -g
root       918  0.0  0.1 13048 1400 ?        S    Apr17   0:03 chkservd

root      1321  0.0  0.3 15156 3644 ?        S    Apr17   0:09 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -DSSL

nobody    9799  0.0  0.6 19312 7052 ?        S    Apr28   0:37  \_ /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -DSSL
nobody    9893  0.0  0.6 19400 6784 ?        S    Apr28   0:41  \_ /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -DSSL

nobody    3483  0.0  1.0 20244 10516 ?       S    May02   0:35  \_ /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -DSSL
nobody    3484  0.0  0.9 19348 9512 ?        S    May02   0:32  \_ /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -DSSL
nobody    3485  0.0  0.9 20092 9832 ?        S    May02   0:30  \_ /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -DSSL
nobody    3486  0.0  0.9 19892 9788 ?        S    May02   0:29  \_ /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -DSSL
nobody    3487  0.0  0.9 19516 9692 ?        S    May02   0:33  \_ /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -DSSL
nobody    3505  0.0  0.9 19756 9868 ?        S    May02   0:34  \_ /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -DSSL
nobody    3561  0.0  0.8 19116 8528 ?        S    May02   0:30  \_ /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -DSSL

The complete log is attached

[nickp666]

Looks like you have a couple of runaway cPanel processes (/usr/local/cpanel/bin/rebuild_sprites)

run

killall -9 rebuild_sprites

and then /scripts/upcp --force

[chad101]

Thanks, I ran the commands. I'm getting a message about cpanel updating

login as: root
root@72.36.194.42's password:
Last login: Thu May 3 17:58:10 2007 from cblmdm72-240-194-151.buckeyecom.net
root@server1 [~]# killall -9 rebuild_sprites
root@server1 [~]# /scripts/upcp --force
cPanel Update (upcp) is already running. Please wait for the previous upcp to complete, or kill off all upcp processes and try again. You may wish to use '--force' at /scripts/upcp line 45.
root@server1 [~]#
Broadcast message from root (Fri May 4 07:14:56 2007):

cPanel Layer 2 Install Complete

I also went to Main >> Server Status >> CPU/Memory/MySQL Usage. Take a look at this

User Domain %CPU %MEM Mysql Processes 
nobody  0.00 0.12 0.0 
Top Process %CPU 0.6 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -DSSL 
Top Process %CPU 0.4 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -DSSL 
Top Process %CPU 0.3 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -DSSL 
munin  2.89 0.30 0.0 
Top Process %CPU 14.0 /usr/bin/perl -w /usr/share/munin/munin-update 
Top Process %CPU 13.0 /usr/bin/perl -w /usr/share/munin/munin-update 
Top Process %CPU 12.0 /usr/bin/perl -w /usr/share/munin/munin-update 
root  124.68 16.21 2.0

124.68% CPU & 16.21% Memory for Root

[rpmws]

loads that high you may want to ps and kill all the upcp related processes ..wait for load to go down and the do a /scripts/upcp --force

[chad101]

I have been waiting all day, it's now 9:30 PM, 18 hours of high load.

Main >> Server Status >> CPU/Memory/MySQL Usage

User Domain %CPU  %MEM   Mysql Processes 
root        45.97 15.11  2.0

[rpmws]

I have been waiting all day, it's now 9:30 PM, 18 hours of high load.

Main >> Server Status >> CPU/Memory/MySQL Usage

User Domain %CPU  %MEM   Mysql Processes 
root        45.97 15.11  2.0

waiting for what?

[chad101]

waiting for what?

loads that high you may want to ps and kill all the upcp related processes ..wait for load to go down and the do a /scripts/upcp --force

Sorry for the misunderstanding I took your previous post as if I should wait for the server load to go down. I’m still learning Linux and server security.