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just now my server was down for two hours and when i talked to the hosting company support team they rebooted the server and everything worked with no problem after that and the first thing i've done that i opened my directadmin account to find this system message could you please explain it to me and what happened and how to fix this issue please :
Subject: Warning: The system load average is 11.7 Today at 18:52
This is an automated message notifying you that the 5 minute load average on your system is 11.7.
This has exceeded the 10 threshold.
One Minute - 20.89
Five Minutes - 11.7
Fifteen Minutes - 4.89
top - 18:52:14 up 6 days, 16:56, 0 users, load average: 19.94, 11.65, 4.91
Tasks: 249 total, 2 running, 246 sleeping, 0 stopped, 1 zombie
Cpu(s): 0.8%us, 0.6%sy, 0.0%ni, 97.9%id, 0.7%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 8054336k total, 7950908k used, 103428k free, 4048k buffers
Swap: 10288124k total, 3746096k used, 6542028k free, 7298588k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
79 root 20 0 0 0 0 D 3.7 0.0 5:28.27 [kswapd0]
16252 apache 20 0 2155m 1.0g 1.0g D 2.8 13.6 0:17.83 /usr/sbin/httpd -k start -DSSL
16271 apache 20 0 2155m 1.0g 1.0g D 2.8 13.1 0:17.80 /usr/sbin/httpd -k start -DSSL
16141 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 2.3 0.0 0:07.79 [flush-8:0]
16175 apache 20 0 2155m 704m 699m D 1.9 9.0 0:21.00 /usr/sbin/httpd -k start -DSSL
48 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.9 0.0 0:23.98 [kblockd/2]
16142 apache 20 0 2155m 689m 684m D 0.9 8.8 0:20.48 /usr/sbin/httpd -k start -DSSL
16176 apache 20 0 2155m 693m 688m D 0.9 8.8 0:21.22 /usr/sbin/httpd -k start -DSSL
1326 TheMagic 20 0 306m 1344 896 S 0.5 0.0 17:47.14 /usr/bin/transmission-daemon -g /home/TheMagicfs/.config/transmission
16456 apache 20 0 0 0 0 Z 0.5 0.0 0:00.01 [httpd] <defunct>
1 root 20 0 19356 500 328 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.52 /sbin/init
2 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 [kthreadd]
3 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:01.14 [migration/0]
4 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:19.20 [ksoftirqd/0]
5 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 [migration/0]
6 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.99 [watchdog/0]
7 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.80 [migration/1]
8 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 [migration/1]
9 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:04.88 [ksoftirqd/1]
10 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.85 [watchdog/1]
11 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.32 [migration/2]
12 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 [migration/2]
13 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:07.32 [ksoftirqd/2]
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Automated Message Generated by DirectAdmin
please help me with and from what i understood which isn't much is that " This has exceeded the 10 threshold " i understand that i'm getting too much load on the server but this isn't the first time so how to increase this threshold to make it at-least 30 to make it unlimited please help me ASAP this is happening frequently
waiting for your respond
just now my server was down for two hours and when i talked to the hosting company support team they rebooted the server and everything worked with no problem after that and the first thing i've done that i opened my directadmin account to find this system message could you please explain it to me and what happened and how to fix this issue please :
Subject: Warning: The system load average is 11.7 Today at 18:52
This is an automated message notifying you that the 5 minute load average on your system is 11.7.
This has exceeded the 10 threshold.
One Minute - 20.89
Five Minutes - 11.7
Fifteen Minutes - 4.89
top - 18:52:14 up 6 days, 16:56, 0 users, load average: 19.94, 11.65, 4.91
Tasks: 249 total, 2 running, 246 sleeping, 0 stopped, 1 zombie
Cpu(s): 0.8%us, 0.6%sy, 0.0%ni, 97.9%id, 0.7%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 8054336k total, 7950908k used, 103428k free, 4048k buffers
Swap: 10288124k total, 3746096k used, 6542028k free, 7298588k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
79 root 20 0 0 0 0 D 3.7 0.0 5:28.27 [kswapd0]
16252 apache 20 0 2155m 1.0g 1.0g D 2.8 13.6 0:17.83 /usr/sbin/httpd -k start -DSSL
16271 apache 20 0 2155m 1.0g 1.0g D 2.8 13.1 0:17.80 /usr/sbin/httpd -k start -DSSL
16141 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 2.3 0.0 0:07.79 [flush-8:0]
16175 apache 20 0 2155m 704m 699m D 1.9 9.0 0:21.00 /usr/sbin/httpd -k start -DSSL
48 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.9 0.0 0:23.98 [kblockd/2]
16142 apache 20 0 2155m 689m 684m D 0.9 8.8 0:20.48 /usr/sbin/httpd -k start -DSSL
16176 apache 20 0 2155m 693m 688m D 0.9 8.8 0:21.22 /usr/sbin/httpd -k start -DSSL
1326 TheMagic 20 0 306m 1344 896 S 0.5 0.0 17:47.14 /usr/bin/transmission-daemon -g /home/TheMagicfs/.config/transmission
16456 apache 20 0 0 0 0 Z 0.5 0.0 0:00.01 [httpd] <defunct>
1 root 20 0 19356 500 328 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.52 /sbin/init
2 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 [kthreadd]
3 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:01.14 [migration/0]
4 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:19.20 [ksoftirqd/0]
5 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 [migration/0]
6 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.99 [watchdog/0]
7 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.80 [migration/1]
8 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 [migration/1]
9 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:04.88 [ksoftirqd/1]
10 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.85 [watchdog/1]
11 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.32 [migration/2]
12 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 [migration/2]
13 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:07.32 [ksoftirqd/2]
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Automated Message Generated by DirectAdmin
please help me with and from what i understood which isn't much is that " This has exceeded the 10 threshold " i understand that i'm getting too much load on the server but this isn't the first time so how to increase this threshold to make it at-least 30 to make it unlimited please help me ASAP this is happening frequently
waiting for your respond
"The system load average is 11.7" please help ASAP
