Is that good or bad (CPU USAGE)

[d3bugg3r]

i dont know how to tell if it's good or bad.
so if someone could explain me a bit about this log and tell me if it's good or bad i will thank him alot.

5:18pm up 22:28, 1 user, load average: 1.06, 0.46, 0.17
73 processes: 71 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 2.6% user, 1.1% system, 0.0% nice, 43.1% idle
Mem: 254332K av, 252116K used, 2216K free, 0K shrd, 11504K buff
Swap: 265032K av, 0K used, 265032K free 173556K cached

[Dammy]

I'm no expert, but it looks good to me. Low CPU usage, load average ok as well... :)
I'd think about getting more RAM though. Could speed up the loading time.

[XP]

looks like really low cpu usage
but in last 5 minutes, you have run somethings using more cpu :))

thoose values are 5 - 10 - 15 minutes averages

[d3bugg3r]

Always good to learn new things :)

You're right i Upgraded some software while i made the CPU check so it's porbably why the CPU usage went up.

[RaiDeN]

Originally posted by d3bugg3r:
<STRONG>i dont know how to tell if it's good or bad.
so if someone could explain me a bit about this log and tell me if it's good or bad i will thank him alot.

5:18pm up 22:28, 1 user, load average: 1.06, 0.46, 0.17
73 processes: 71 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 2.6% user, 1.1% system, 0.0% nice, 43.1% idle
Mem: 254332K av, 252116K used, 2216K free, 0K shrd, 11504K buff
Swap: 265032K av, 0K used, 265032K free 173556K cached</STRONG>

looking good for about 1 thing..

you only got 256 Mb Ram. you'd better upgrade that to at least 1 Gig , while the prices are good. :D

and a SWAP of 256 Ram... you'd better have your techs make make that 2 Gig.

not neccesary offcourse but when you go over 1025 Maxclients on your dedicated, you'd better have it just in case...

[Ravo]

I've been told that a "load average" less than 4 is excellent, once you get above 10 it severely loads the server, and above 40 will crash the box.

Your numbers look excellent.

[Due]

Originally posted by RaiDeN:
<STRONG>

looking good for about 1 thing..

you only got 256 Mb Ram. you'd better upgrade that to at least 1 Gig , while the prices are good. :D

and a SWAP of 256 Ram... you'd better have your techs make make that 2 Gig.

not neccesary offcourse but when you go over 1025 Maxclients on your dedicated, you'd better have it just in case...</STRONG>

I have NEVER yet seen a server that needed more than 1 Gig RAM and 512 MB SWAP.
Should be plenty.
If you use 1 Gig Ram start considering putting up more servers instead og throw in 512 MB or 1 Gig extra RAM and see how it works.
Ravo&gt;
The number that crash the server depends on the setup of the server. I managed to have a server running with around 160 (YES was VERY slow but still was alive) but basicly on my traffic trading sites I try to keep it below 1 other than that keep it as low as possible :)

[Due]

*LOL* 160 = 60 :D

[unconnected]

how muhc BW are you pushing on that box..
My box usually sits at 85-95% idle, and there are some hardcore scripts running some decent traffic... I had a BSD guru rip my box apart for 6 hours and recompile it though...

[Coke]

Yep, that looks quite good. The only thing that bothers me a little is the low uptime though :)

ABout the load average. I had a server once go up to a load average of over 600 (yes six hundred). That was a dedicated server of a customer of ours and he had some PHP scripts running amok :)
Killing all children of Apache took about 15 minutes but afterwards the server was fully recovered, so to speak. Then I rebooted the server anyway though :D

[XP]

I see 300-400 average on prohosters, before days ago. But it was still working!
Server has 4 gig ram and 4x1Ghz cpu I think :D

[hickmant]

ah the joy of clusters :)

That is actually 8 dual 933's with 1GB of ram there. If one machine is so it's taken out of the pool and the others take over.
just wanted to clear this up.

Ted

[axxxis]

Looks to me like you are running linux, that might be your problem, if one exists :) FreeBSD - The power to serve!