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load average & cpu question
On an Azure Vm, I see load constantly above 1 (usually 1.5 - 2.5) - 1 core. On htop, the cpu is always low (2-5% most of the time). Tasks 123, 233 thr; 2 running. Memory is half free. OS is ubuntu 14.04
Any idea why load is so high? Could it be a bug? I saw that there used to be an Ubuntu/EC2 kernel bug with false high load, but that was old. On another Azure VM, I don't see the same behavior (with same OS).
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Pending disk I/O, perhaps? Load average takes into account iowait.
EDIT: Try
iotop
.Overselling ?
On Azure?
~30KB/s sporadically atm - load 1.45
@deadbeef way do you think is not possible ?
I kinda don't see Microsoft, Amazon and Google having overselling as their profit strategy for their clouds.
What does it show for % of I/O in use? If the % (ie. random access load) is low, then there's definitely a problem, as the load shouldn't be that high then.
Does it behave sluggish? I remember Azure having severe disk/network performance issues a year or two ago, when we (as in, ArchiveTeam) tried to use it for archival tasks. I have been told it was improved in the meantime, but who knows.
Not sure what the proper params should be, does this include the metric you're referring to?
It only hosts a number of sites (dockerized) that have very very low traffic and some dev sites (which I am not stressing in any way atm). The sites work fine (ok response time on page load).
I'm thinking of rebooting it to see if that matters but ... but ... the uptime
Doesn't seem to, no.
If you run
iotop
without any flags, it should display IO% per process. If all the (top) values are low, there's no notable iowait.Yeah, then it's probably not an issue with your VM. Perhaps submit a support ticket? No idea how Azure support works...
CPU Steal high?
?
Thank you all for your replies! I'll try to change the node it's on and see if that has anything to do with it.
Since it's a VM you could have noisy neighbours in top cpu steal is listed as st.