Load Server

Community Forums/General Help/Load Server

Yue(Posted 2013) [#1]
Hi, I am creating a website on a shared server, however I wonder if this number is very high server load or is correct:

Server Load: 34.6


xlsior(Posted 2013) [#2]
What kind of Server? Linux?

If so, the 34.6 is high, but unfortunately that's a common problem on shared servers -- they'll tend to pile as many websites on them as they can, because it's expensive to add more servers.


Yue(Posted 2013) [#3]
yes it's server Linux.


Derron(Posted 2013) [#4]
It is a really high value:

ronny@ronnyPC ~ $ uptime
 10:16:17 up 16 days, 12:19,  3 users,  load average: 0.70, 1.14, 0.87


And mine is crunching a someGigaByte-Database every 2 minutes.

But please keep in mind: the value just says "i would need 34.6x that computer to have a load of 1.0". The cpu may run <100%, same for ram etc. But one of the components is not fast enough. So eg. the hard drive for read/write accesses.

More could be find out using other tools (top, cpuinfo...).


bye
Ron