whats causing the server load?

[Sheldon]

Server Load @ one time.

How can I find out what is causing the server load at a specific time? I dont have many crons running at this point, however SIM reports high LOAD over a period of time during the night and I have no idea why.

Any info or suggestions on this would be greatly arepciated.

 

[bigpy2003]

If you're running backups, it might be gzipping your site or tarring it.

 

[AlphaWebspace]

I think mainly it would be a Bot

if you type in SSH

locate bot

then you should have a list of areas try and found the mroe obious things bot can also open up some things that are not bots.


Bots would be:
in a SQL Database
and also in a public_html directory most likely to be called bot,

Good Luck,

 

[bigpy2003]

I was just saying from past experience though. The server load will jump and then drop back down once all backups are complete.

 

[Sheldon]

yes but to a server load of 7?

my SIM goes nuts!

its never done this before!

 

[Sheldon]

and.. it cant be the backups because the Cron Daemon gets emailed to me every night and its not 'waiting for server load to go down'

know what I mean?

 

[oswx]

load hign

i want to know how program in the cpanel with backup?thank you!

 

[Sheldon]

eh?

say that again.. in english this time... lol