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Posted by SQNWK, 11-25-2010, 12:11 AM
I have a server that has a high server load around the same time each day for the last two days, I thought it might of been a cron job but I couldn't find any current ones. Looking for suggestions.

Posted by fabin, 11-25-2010, 12:23 AM
If you can check the result of "top -c" during that time, you can find the script that takes load.

Posted by Mordely, 11-25-2010, 12:32 AM
SQNWK, what is the setup of this server? Linux? cPanel/WHM? How many accounts? Are backups configured? there are many contributing factors that could be causing high server loads. if you could provide some more information that would help!

Posted by Negizmo, 11-25-2010, 01:59 AM
It's quite possible that the site(s) are just being hit often during that time period, and MySQL/Apache are eating up your resources.

Posted by Hillockhosting, 11-25-2010, 12:37 PM
check if cpanelogd is running or some back like rsync

Posted by SQNWK, 11-25-2010, 10:40 PM
Here is what top -c shows 462 nobody 17 0 191m 44m 4608 R 52.6 1.1 0:03.84 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -k start -DSSL 2502 mysql 15 0 410m 89m 4120 S 37.9 2.3 235:54.02 /usr/sbin/mysqld --basedir=/ --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --user=mysql --pid-file=/var/lib/mysql/server.stanleygutowski.com.pid --skip-external-lockin 517 nobody 16 0 198m 53m 4116 R 36.6 1.4 0:02.80 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -k start -DSSL 487 nobody 16 0 197m 52m 4136 R 31.6 1.3 0:04.38 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -k start -DSSL 371 nobody 15 0 193m 47m 5540 S 0.7 1.2 0:07.44 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -k start -DSSL 447 nobody 15 0 191m 45m 5344 S 0.7 1.2 0:04.93 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -k start -DSSL 512 nobody 15 0 187m 40m 4676 S 0.7 1.0 0:04.79 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -k start -DSSL

Posted by SQNWK, 11-25-2010, 11:16 PM
There is about 10 sites, one of them runs on wordpress and gets about 1000 hits a day



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