Any suggestions on how to improve and increase performance for a server

[vlee]

Any suggestions on how to improve and increase performance for a server that has 3 major websites that are extremely high traffic sites that produces high loads on the server.

Here is the loads this morning below. On peak hours it is 2 times higher. With about 60k to 200k users on the sites at a time.

Time: Fri Apr 26 07:57:52 2013 -0700
1 Min Load Avg: 36.27
5 Min Load Avg: 35.75
15 Min Load Avg: 35.28
Running/Total Processes: 50/653

Server is an 8 Core Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5420 @ 2.50GHz
With 16 Gigs of Ram

This server is needs a little help and any suggestions on how to improve the server with cPanel.

 

[thinkbot]

Not many details,

Please post /etc/my.cnf config
run tools like mysqltuner.pl and mysqlreport, and post the result
post the result of top etc.

do you run tools like munin for monitoring ?
you can post the result graphs (for disk, cpu usage, load, mysql)

finally please post the versions of php, mysql that you use
and names of the scripts that sites are running (if not custom)

or if you need professional optimization done, please contact me directly on PM

Regards

 

[Infopro]

Not many details,

Please post /etc/my.cnf config
run tools like mysqltuner.pl and mysqlreport, and post the result
post the result of top etc.

do you run tools like munin for monitoring ?
you can post the result graphs (for disk, cpu usage, load, mysql)

finally please post the versions of php, mysql that you use
and names of the scripts that sites are running (if not custom)

This might be a bit easier:
mysqlmymonlite.sh server stats gathering tool for cPanel Server - cPanel Forums

or if you need professional optimization done, please contact me directly on PM

Regards

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