[asterisk-users] VERY HIGH LOAD AVERAGE: top - 10:27:57 up 199 days, 5:18, 2 users, load average: 67.75, 62.55, 55.75

[Alex Balashov]

Do you want the advice in ALL CAPS?

On 02/08/2010 11:42 PM, Muro, Sam wrote:

> Hi Team
>
> Can someone advice me on how i can lower the load average on my asterisk
> server?
>
> dahdi-linux-2.1.0.4
> dahdi-tools-2.1.0.2
> libpri-1.4.10.1
> asterisk-1.4.25.1
>
> 2 X TE412P Digium cards on ISDN PRI
>
> Im using the system as an IVR without any transcoding or bridging
>
> **************************************
> top - 10:27:57 up 199 days,  5:18,  2 users,  load average: 67.75, 62.55,
> 55.75
> Tasks: 149 total,   1 running, 148 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie Cpu0
> : 10.3%us, 32.0%sy,  0.0%ni, 57.3%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.3%si,  0.0%st
> Cpu1  : 10.6%us, 34.6%sy,  0.0%ni, 54.8%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,
> 0.0%st
> Cpu2  : 13.3%us, 36.5%sy,  0.0%ni, 49.8%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.3%si,
> 0.0%st
> Cpu3  :  8.6%us, 39.5%sy,  0.0%ni, 51.8%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,
> 0.0%st
> Cpu4  :  7.3%us, 38.0%sy,  0.0%ni, 54.7%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,
> 0.0%st
> Cpu5  : 17.9%us, 37.5%sy,  0.0%ni, 44.5%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,
> 0.0%st
> Cpu6  : 13.3%us, 37.2%sy,  0.0%ni, 49.5%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,
> 0.0%st
> Cpu7  : 12.7%us, 37.3%sy,  0.0%ni, 50.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,
> 0.0%st
> Mem:   3961100k total,  3837920k used,   123180k free,   108944k buffers
> Swap:   779144k total,       56k used,   779088k free,  3602540k cached
>
>    PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND 683
> root      15   0 97968  36m 5616 S 307.7  0.9  41457:34 asterisk
> 17176 root      15   0  2196 1052  800 R  0.7  0.0   0:00.32 top
>      1 root      15   0  2064  592  512 S  0.0  0.0   0:13.96 init
>      2 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   5:27.80 migration/0 3
> root      34  19     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.11 ksoftirqd/0 4
> root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 watchdog/0 5
> root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   1:07.67 migration/1 6
> root      34  19     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.09 ksoftirqd/1 7
> root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 watchdog/1 8
> root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   1:16.92 migration/2 9
> root      34  19     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.03 ksoftirqd/2
>     10 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 watchdog/2 11
> root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   1:34.54 migration/3 12
> root      34  19     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.15 ksoftirqd/3 13
> root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 watchdog/3 14
> root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:54.66 migration/4 15
> root      34  19     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.01 ksoftirqd/4 16
> root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 watchdog/4 17
> root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   1:39.64 migration/5 18
> root      39  19     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.21 ksoftirqd/5 19
> root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 watchdog/5 20
> root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   1:06.27 migration/6 21
> root      34  19     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.03 ksoftirqd/6 22
> root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 watchdog/6 23
> root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   1:23.24 migration/7 24
> root      34  19     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.17 ksoftirqd/7 25
> root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 watchdog/7 26
> root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:25.70 events/0 27 root
>       10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:37.83 events/1 28 root
> 10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:15.67 events/2 29 root      10
> -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:40.36 events/3 30 root      10  -5
>    0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:16.45 events/4
> *********************************************
>
> Thanks
> Sam
>
>
>


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