CPU/ Server overload

[DiddyW]

Hello, I'm prettynew to all this and I get every 6 hours CPU/ Server overload notification which is the following:
IMPORTANT: Do not ignore this email.
This is cPanel cpuwatch on xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx!
While processing, the cpu has been
maxed out for more than a 6 hour period. The current load/uptime line on the server at the time of
this email is
03:15:27 up 109 days, 13:50, 0 users, load average: 9.80, 5.21, 5.17
You should check the server to see why the load is so high and take
steps to lower the load. If you want stats to continue to run even with a high load; Edit
/var/cpanel/cpanel.config and change extracpus to a number larger then 0 (run
/usr/local/cpanel/startup afterwards to pickup the changes).

My question now is how can I investigate the cause of this problem, how to find out where it comes from?
I got about 5 domains on that server and my guess is I need to find out first of all which domain it comes from.
And then surely we all have differnt web sites, but is there a way to find the root cause of this problem. It really slows down my sites a lot.

 

[ServerKitaWebId]

try to look in whm process manager or you can submit a tickets support to cpanel technical support i thinks that would be much help, good luck

 

[raghunath]

Hey !

You can try the command "top" on your server to check which process is using more memory/ CPU.

You can also use pstree to list out the process tree.

OR

If you go into whm and tweak settings there should be a line:The load average above the number of cpus at which logs file processing...........
You can simply update this to a higher value. In this case the logs should run.

 

[LinuxTechie]

Hello,

You should check WHM > Daily Process Logs to see what users are using high resource.

The below given doc will help you to get a better understanding on Daily process log.

Daily Process Log (formerly CPU/Memory/MySQL Usage)