fshagan Posted January 16, 2011 Report Share Posted January 16, 2011 In the SolusVM control panel there is a statistics section, with three charts. I think I understand the traffic (bandwidth) and memory use, but what exactly is "Load"? I'm assuming its the load on the CPU. Is it divided by two since I have two cores dedicated to my VPS? I was logged in w/SSH as root and running "top" to see CPU utilization a couple days before this chart, when I was converting a SMF forum to IP.Board. The CPU hit 80% a couple of times processing the SQL queries for attachments (there are 7,900 pictures in the forums). Nothing blew up, but that's a number I'd hate to see for any length of time. On my old reseller plan, the CPU was often up over 30% from all the shared accounts, so any time you needed to perform a query it was pretty tough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael D. Posted January 17, 2011 Report Share Posted January 17, 2011 Load is just a representation of the processes on the server waiting for CPU access. In a 2 core system generally you'd want to try and keep it under 2.0 however there are a few reasons why it could go over 2.0 and still be responsive. It should be used more as a guide and not as an absolute certainty. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fshagan Posted January 18, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 18, 2011 OK, that makes sense. Other than during the monster forum imports, I haven't seen it go above about 1.3, and usually its down way below 1. I have to say, the response time on the VPS is great. I'm very happy with the move. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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