VPS Causing High Server Load

[zinc]

Hi All,

My VPS was suspended for a reason that it is causing high load to the server.

Can anybody please explain why? Do I really need to be suspended for this reason. Thanks very much for any help.

I got this message from the web host

Your vps has been temporarily disabled due to causing high load which in turn caused the high load to the server node. Find the log details below for your reference:

[root@serverxxx /]# top -c
top - 22:30:10 up 19:16, 0 users, load average: 38.90, 37.65, 36.50
Tasks: 93 total, 1 running, 88 sleeping, 0 stopped, 4 zombie
Cpu(s): 0.9%us, 0.2%sy, 0.0%ni, 93.4%id, 5.5%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 524288k total, 503596k used, 20692k free, 0k buffers
Swap: 0k total, 0k used, 0k free, 0k cached

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
13873 apache 15 0 357m 19m 3896 S 9.9 3.8 0:00.19 /usr/sbin/httpd
1526 mysql 15 0 212m 16m 4916 S 4.0 3.2 4:50.64 /usr/libexec/mysqld --basedir=/usr --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --u
12117 apache 16 0 0 0 0 Z 2.0 0.0 0:00.11 [httpd] <defunct>
14023 apache 16 0 354m 17m 3696 S 2.0 3.4 0:00.04 /usr/sbin/httpd
14038 apache 15 0 0 0 0 Z 2.0 0.0 0:00.08 [httpd] <defunct>
14116 apache 15 0 302m 18m 4268 S 2.0 3.6 0:00.05 /usr/sbin/httpd
14145 apache 15 0 297m 14m 2988 D 2.0 2.8 0:00.02 /usr/sbin/httpd
1 root 15 0 10364 740 620 S 0.0 0.1 0:01.10 init [3]
1438 root 16 0 6816 632 504 D 0.0 0.1 0:01.14 syslogd -m 0
1453 root 15 0 62652 1224 660 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.00 /usr/sbin/sshd
1485 root 19 0 65944 1396 1168 S 0.0 0.3 0:00.00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/mysqld_safe --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --socket=
1545 root 18 0 3840 456 376 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 tcpserver -vDRHl0 -x tcp.cdb -- 0.0.0.0 53 /usr/local/bin/axfrd
1560 root 18 0 65948 1364 1152 S 0.0 0.3 0:00.00 sh ../sbin/kloxo-wrapper.sh
1626 qmails 16 0 10212 584 444 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.28 qmail-send
1634 qmaill 16 0 3812 560 472 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.11 splogger qmail
1635 root 15 0 3832 452 352 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.08 qmail-lspawn |preline procmail
1636 qmailr 16 0 3832 460 360 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.02 qmail-rspawn
1637 qmailq 18 0 3804 428 344 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.05 qmail-clean
1647 root 15 0 52508 1948 1452 S 0.0 0.4 0:00.01 /usr/libexec/courier-authlib/authdaemond
1650 root 15 0 3840 464 388 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.01 /usr/bin/tcpserver -v -R -H -l serverxxx.com 0 110
1656 root 19 0 3840 452 376 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 /usr/bin/tcpserver -v -R -H -l serverxxx.com 0 995
1662 root 16 0 3840 468 388 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.01 /usr/bin/tcpserver -v -R -H -l serverxxx.com 0 143
1667 root 15 0 3840 452 376 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 /usr/bin/tcpserver -v -R -H -l serverxxx.com 0 993
1681 root 15 0 74856 1164 588 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.10 crond
1695 root 18 0 52508 612 116 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.01 /usr/libexec/courier-authlib/authdaemond
3713 root 18 0 21660 960 740 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.18 xinetd -stayalive -pidfile /var/run/xinetd.pid
11914 apache 16 0 295m 13m 3364 S 0.0 2.6 0:00.07 /usr/sbin/httpd
12133 root 16 0 293m 13m 6848 D 0.0 2.7 0:11.08 /usr/sbin/httpd
13588 apache 15 0 352m 15m 3736 D 0.0 3.1 0:00.06 /usr/sbin/httpd
13804 apache 15 0 293m 9036 1444 D 0.0 1.7 0:00.01 /usr/sbin/httpd

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zinc Reviewed by zinc on 12th Oct 2012. VPS Causing High Server Load Hi All, My VPS was suspended for a reason that it is causing high load to the server. Can anybody please explain why? Do I really need to be suspended for this reason. Thanks very much for any help. I got this message from the web host Rating: 5

[Ifirst]

How can you expect us to give you valuable information with so little data
Show your apache & Mysql configuration
What kind of script you run on your server?
Is this behaviour recent ?
Have you suffered from DDos attacks lately?
.....i could go on and on

[zinc]

Sorry if I am not able to provide additional information. All I thought I have given enough.

Here is my server configuration:

Dedicated RAID-10 Disk Space : 30 GB
Dedicated Monthly Bandwidth : 300GB
Dedicated DDR3 RAM :256 mb
Burstable DDR3 RAM : 512mb
Shared CPU : x4 3.00+Ghz
SolusVM Control Panel
CentOS 5 - 64Bit
Apache
MySQL
LXAdmin

This is the first time that it happen. I am not aware of any DDOS.

Thanks very much.

[JReece]

What do you use the server for? What do you run in it?

[zinc]

SMF 2 forum. 934987 Posts in 18797 Topics by 18355 Members.

[Ifirst]

Add more ram (1gb minimum)
Tell me your apache configuration (Start servers , MinSpareServers ,MaxRequestsPerChild, MaxSpareServers , ServerLimit and MaxClients values)

[DoctorX]

How many visitors you get / day?

[Black Pearl]

SMF 2 forum. 934987 Posts in 18797 Topics by 18355 Members.

You're hosting such big forum with 256 mb ram?

[ReverseHosts]

Hi All,

My VPS was suspended for a reason that it is causing high load to the server.

Can anybody please explain why? Do I really need to be suspended for this reason. Thanks very much for any help.

I got this message from the web host

You're pushing your limits with such a small server, you should get a bigger one if you have that much members.

[zinc]

Any suggestions for server specs to cater for this forum?

I can't afford an expensive server because I am paying the server cost from my personal money.

Thanks everyone.