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Posted by cpanelfanatic, 12-29-2007, 04:45 AM
Hello Every body, from last week i am continously getting warning mail form cpanel cpu watch that my cpu got overloaded as like follows, IMPORTANT: Do not ignore this email. This is cPanel cpuwatch on xxx.com! While processing, the cpu has been maxed out for more than a 6 hour period. The current load/uptime line on the server at the time of this email is 19:05:10 up 143 days, 20:38, 0 users, load average: 1.11, 0.69, 0.63 You should check the server to see why the load is so high and take steps to lower the load. If you want stats to continue to run even with a high load; Edit /var/cpanel/cpanel.config and change extracpus to a number larger then 0 (run /usr/local/cpanel/startup afterwards to pickup the changes). I searched on load average and found that average load for 1 cpu is 2 and default value is 5 to 10.but here i am getting mail for 1.11 itself.I changed the value of threshold of load average in stat and logs of tweak setting to 4.but no improvement.now also i am getting more than 4 mails for average load i.e 1.23 also I am totally confused of what is going on...... My questions are: 1)what is the criteria cpanel is checking for sending cpu-watch warning mail? 2)i am getting nothing more than rsync and exim at the time of overload(while using TOP command).So why now only i am getting warning mail? what is the cause of this problem? I was getting idea from internet to create account without stat/ log analyse function .But not sure how will it work and afraid of doing this....... Please help me to get rid of this problem ....... Thanks in advance.... Thanks,
Posted by activelobby4u, 12-29-2007, 09:03 AM
You have to check the file /var/cpanel/cpanel.config to see the default settings usign which cpanel send this mail. Alter the same to troubleshoot your current problem
Posted by PremiumHost, 12-30-2007, 01:59 AM
Check in tweak settings -> The load average that will cause the server status to appear red
Posted by cpanelfanatic, 01-02-2008, 01:23 AM
Hi, I have changed the both but nothing helps me....When i change tweak settings-> average load to 4,i am not getting red upto 4 but i am getting warning mail for avearage load of 2 itself.
Posted by david510, 01-02-2008, 02:03 AM
Do the above.
Posted by cpanelfanatic, 01-02-2008, 02:38 AM
I have changed that /var/cpanel/cpanel.config to 5.Eventhough i am getting warning mails.....

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