Server Overloading always

[big_bull]

Hello,

One of my servers is overloading always.

Following is top output.

root@abc [~]# top
top - 05:15:41 up 17 days, 23:54, 3 users, load average: 6.18, 5.33, 4.87
Tasks: 267 total, 11 running, 252 sleeping, 1 stopped, 3 zombie
Cpu(s): 43.0%us, 24.6%sy, 0.0%ni, 6.3%id, 23.4%wa, 0.2%hi, 2.5%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 4151128k total, 3903744k used, 247384k free, 392016k buffers
Swap: 2096472k total, 84k used, 2096388k free, 2824348k cached

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
20548 mysql 15 0 103m 20m 4368 S 45.5 0.5 0:26.49 mysqld
21371 cseman 17 0 111m 27m 7444 S 14.3 0.7 0:00.43 php5
21348 hrmsys 18 0 30512 15m 6284 R 8.6 0.4 0:00.26 php5
21354 almo 15 0 102m 17m 7012 S 5.0 0.4 0:00.15 php5
21355 almo 16 0 102m 17m 7052 R 4.3 0.4 0:00.13 php5
19894 asraes 15 0 101m 16m 6988 S 2.3 0.4 0:04.69 php5
19873 asraes 15 0 101m 16m 7004 S 1.7 0.4 0:04.06 php5
21357 tedcyuc 18 0 100m 15m 6800 R 1.3 0.4 0:00.04 php5
23124 remixfor 17 0 0 0 0 Z 7.0 0.0 0:00.21 php5 <defunct>

seems issue with apache compiled.

Please assist.

[eth00]

Why do you think it is your apache compile?


Cpu(s): 43.0%us, 24.6%sy, 0.0%ni, 6.3%id, 23.4%wa, 0.2%hi, 2.5%si, 0.0%st

23% of your load is being cause by waiting on the hard drive. That snapshot may not be indicative of how it normally runs but I would watch the IO on your server. If it stays up high and nothing is wrong like a failing disk you should try to reduce the IO. One of the easiest things is noatime and depending on your drive configuration moving MySQL to another drive.

[big_bull]

Its just because I am getting alerts like this

Account: XXXX
Resource: Virtual Memory Size
Exceeded: 103 > 100 (MB)
Executable: /usr/local/cpanel/cgi-sys/php5
Command Line: php5
PID: 1235
Killed: No

and

Current Configuration is

Option Configured Value
Default PHP Version (.php files) 5
PHP 5 Handler cgi
PHP 4 Handler none

Apache suEXEC on

[eth00]

That does not mean the server is overloading. You have a script monitoring how much memory everything takes up and apparently a cPanel php process is taking too much up for it. When you get it you should login and see if you are able to see what it is doing. It is something related to php and cPanel.

[Infopro]

This is more of a CSF configuration issue than a cPanel server question.

See these as examples to the fix:

Another "Excessive resource usage: XXX" question - ConfigServer Scripts Forum
lfd: Suspicious process running under user - ConfigServer Scripts Forum
FCGI issues - ConfigServer Scripts Forum

[Spiral]

Big_Bull, you are discussing two totally distinct and separate issues.

Now regarding the loading issue, I can help you get to the bottom of that
and also optimize your system where needed. There also may be additional factors such as things not being compiled correctly for your hardware, problems with your hard drive or controller interface, etc and I can help diagnose those issues as well.

Now regarding the second item you mentioned with the virtual memory
alert, that is more of a simple configuration issue with LFD (CSF).