Load on servers goes to 10 and more

[plastic]

Hey,

The last couple of days the load on my server goes up and up, but from the moment I connect true ssh, it goes down again.

When I do a top it gives httpd and mysql give 99% cpu usage from time to time.

I see under Service status in WHM my mem usage is high (Memory Used 90.4 % )

I not changed a lot the last couple of weeks.

Processor Info

Processor #1 Vendor: AuthenticAMD
Processor #1 Name: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2100+
Processor #1 speed: 1741.975 MHz
Processor #1 cache size: 256 KB


Memory Information
Memory: 1025352k/1040320k available (1362k kernel code, 14580k reserved, -1775k data, 128k init, 122816k highmem)


System Information
Linux hulk.be-hostedns.be 2.4.21-grsec #1 Mon Aug 4 18:52:07 CDT 2003 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux


Physical Drives
hda: ST360015A, ATA DISK drive
hda: attached ide-disk driver.
hda: host protected area => 1
hda: 117231408 sectors (60022 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=7297/255/63, UDMA(100)


Current Memory Usage
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1025480 1002992 22488 0 5468 61552
-/+ buffers/cache: 935972 89508
Swap: 1052248 109672 942576
Total: 2077728 1112664 965064


Current Disk Usage
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda3 54G 13G 38G 25% /
/dev/hda1 38M 10M 26M 28% /boot
none 501M 0 500M 0% /dev/shm


So I don't know why it's getting so high.

are their other ppl with the same or simmelair problems?

Any info would be helpfull.

 

[shaun]

if mysql is showing 99% cpu you may want to log into mysql and see who's logged in and what they are doing.

Also cpanels cpu/mysql stats section may help.

 

[plastic]

I will keep an eye on it, for the moment, it's running fine, I hope it stays like this, thx in advance shaun

 

[rsaylor]

Could be a script going wild. I had the same problem on Friday with one of my customer servers and it was a script with bugs connecting to a mysql database.

When the load gets high do this:

tail -f /etc/httpd/logs/error_log

Then if you see a lot of entries for 1 script or html file you will know where the problem is.

 

[plastic]

Hey,

I found the client who was causing this, there where a lot of miss programmed stuff in his site, so when someone did a search it went into a loop until the client closed his browser , isn't there an option in WHM to limit the users with cpu usage?