High load without explanation
- by Sebastian
I have a very high load on my machine and don't know what is responsible or how to find out.
On the machine runs a jboss appserver and mysql. Here is a top from the user at peak time:
top - 16:23:01 up 101 days, 6:50, 1 user, load average: 23.42, 21.53, 24.73
Tasks: 9 total, 1 running, 8 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 17.2%us, 1.6%sy, 0.0%ni, 80.4%id, 0.1%wa, 0.1%hi, 0.7%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 16440784k total, 16263720k used, 177064k free, 151916k buffers
Swap: 16780872k total, 30428k used, 16750444k free, 8963648k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
27344 b 40 0 16.0g 6.5g 14m S 169 41.7 1184:09 java
6047 b 40 0 11484 1232 1228 S 0 0.0 0:00.01 mysqld_safe
6192 b 40 0 604m 182m 4696 S 0 1.1 93:30.40 mysqld
7948 b 40 0 84036 1968 1176 S 0 0.0 0:00.07 sshd
7949 b 40 0 14004 2900 1608 S 0 0.0 0:00.03 bash
7975 b 40 0 8604 1044 840 S 0 0.0 0:00.44 top
The CPU usage of the java process is normal. The peaks only show up when i deployed a certain web application. Could the resulting network traffic boost the load in such way that i don't see it in top?