I think server20 is a little overloaded:

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and worst for times.
(time is GMT-3)

maybe you are running a full server backup (in a week day) ?
greetings.

Dear Martin, we are not running a full server backup. The server is not overloaded,everything seems to be in order.

(20% for each cpu?)

I say that because i have seen a backup php script, running by root
maybe is another thing

My server is running horribly as well. I am cancelling my service right now.

well my server is not horrible, it work quite well, I just post this message because this is not a commonly operation rate and i was uploading some big files, so i request the check to support.

now is a little fine.
greetings.

Hello mblendinger,




It's good uptime.

Server Load Explination
The load average tries to measure the number of active processes at any time. As a measure of CPU utilization, the load average is simplistic, poorly defined, but far from useless. High load averages usually mean that the system is being used heavily and the response time is correspondingly slow. What is high? ...
Ideally, you'd like a load average under, say, 3, ... Ultimately, 'high' means high enough so that you don't need uptime to tell you that the system is overloaded.

Thanks for your explanation, Alexandre, you are always so glad to help.

I just see than the server was very slow for a time, I enter to shell, run top, and i see cpu usage a lot more than normal. (a lot of 20% values, instead of the common 1% or 2%)

Thanks again for your attention.

(and yes, the uptime is acceptable )

)

1% or 2% mean that server is dead

CPU usage should be at least 8-10%.