High Load VPS

[hostmedic]

Colo Client running vps on their server (vmware) complaining of the following:


Top Process %CPU 58.9 cpbandwd
Top Process %CPU 44.4 cpbandwd
Top Process %CPU 38.9 cpbandwd

top - 23:17:24 up 3:55, 4 users, load average: 14.45, 14.89, 14.21
Tasks: 164 total, 2 running, 160 sleeping, 1 stopped, 1 zombie
Cpu(s): 3.9%us, 4.9%sy, 0.0%ni, 45.2%id, 45.6%wa, 0.2%hi, 0.2%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 1035276k total, 1010864k used, 24412k free, 56676k buffers
Swap: 1052248k total, 6940k used, 1045308k free, 517812k cached


perl -MFile::Tail -le 'print $File::Tail::VERSION;print $];'
0.99.3
5.008008

WHM 11.15.0 cPanel 11.18.6-R24255
CENTOS Enterprise 5 i686 on vmware - WHM X v3.1.0

Processor #1 Vendor: GenuineIntel
Processor #1 Name: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz
Processor #1 speed: 1775.442 MHz
Processor #1 cache size: 4096 KB

Processor #2 Vendor: GenuineIntel
Processor #2 Name: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz
Processor #2 speed: 1775.442 MHz
Processor #2 cache size: 4096 KB


Memory Information
Memory: 1032376k/1048576k available (2081k kernel code, 15376k reserved, 869k data, 220k init, 131008k highmem)


System Information

Linux hostname 2.6.18-53.1.19.el5 #1 SMP Wed May 7 08:20:19 EDT 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux


Physical Disks

hdc: VMware Virtual IDE CDROM Drive, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
SCSI device sda: 209715200 512-byte hdwr sectors (107374 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 5d 00 00 00
sda: cache data unavailable
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
SCSI device sda: 209715200 512-byte hdwr sectors (107374 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 5d 00 00 00
sda: cache data unavailable
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda
SCSI device sdb: 209715200 512-byte hdwr sectors (107374 MB)
sdb: Write Protect is off
sdb: Mode Sense: 5d 00 00 00
sdb: cache data unavailable
sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
SCSI device sdb: 209715200 512-byte hdwr sectors (107374 MB)
sdb: Write Protect is off
sdb: Mode Sense: 5d 00 00 00
sdb: cache data unavailable
sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
sd 0:0:1:0: Attached scsi disk sdb
hdc: ATAPI 1X CD-ROM drive, 32kB Cache, UDMA(33)
sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
sd 0:0:1:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0


Current Memory Usage

total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1035276 822340 212936 0 82084 421140
-/+ buffers/cache: 319116 716160
Swap: 1052248 80 1052168
Total: 2087524 822420 1265104


Current Disk Usage

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda5 94G 40G 50G 44% /
/dev/sda1 996M 43M 902M 5% /boot
tmpfs 506M 0 506M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda2 996M 79M 866M 9% /tmp
/dev/sdb1 99G 72G 22G 78% /backup





Any suggestions?
Kernel redone today

[cpanelnick]

CURRENT replaces cpbandwd with tailwatchd which is much more efficient.