I saw the avg load via WP plugin admin panel, which is most time over 20. I assume that number comes from linux uptime cmd. Typically 20 is considered too high cpu load for a system to behave... is this the norm at x10hosting? I even saw it stayed at 39-40 for quite a while...
avg load constantly over 20. is that normal
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The reason the ability to see the load in cpanel was removed was due to people asking.
Load is a random number the system pulls to represent the work its under. It usually has little to no effect on actual performance.
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last year, i saw the load spike at 70, yet my website loaded fairly fast.
Anything can bring the load up. It is always high on the free servers.
Load is a random number the system pulls to represent the work its under. It usually has little to no effect on actual performance.
Example:
last year, i saw the load spike at 70, yet my website loaded fairly fast.
Anything can bring the load up. It is always high on the free servers.
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The reason why it doesn't mean much is that the load is divided between the number of CPUs the server has. For example, if the load is 20 and the server has 4 CPUs, the load is distributed 5 on each. I'm not sure how many CPUs x10 servers contain, but for them to support a load of 70 there must be many.
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That isn't the load. Load basically the number of processes in the CPU que and processes halted due to IO
"An idle computer has a load number of 0 and each process using or waiting for CPU adds to the load number by 1. Linux also includes processes in uninterruptible sleep states (usually waiting for disk activity), "
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load_(computing)
Actually my post is referenced from http://wiki.lunarpages.com/CPanel_Server_Status which I got off a Google Search looking for a cPanel status script.
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