{"id":3849,"date":"2016-04-29T15:30:05","date_gmt":"2016-04-29T15:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/2016\/04\/29\/viewing-load-averages-whm\/"},"modified":"2024-04-17T12:57:15","modified_gmt":"2024-04-17T16:57:15","slug":"viewing-load-averages-whm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/edu\/whm\/viewing-load-averages-whm\/","title":{"rendered":"Viewing your Load Averages in WHM"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How to Quickly view Load Averages<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the quickest ways to see how your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/vps-hosting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">VPS<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/dedicated-servers\">Dedicated Server<\/a> is doing is to look at the Load Averages interface in the top right hand corner of the WHM. Here you will see a section called Load Averages followed by a set of numbers. By default, if you\u2019re seeing zeros, or decimals less than 1, then the server is not very busy. However, if you are seeing three numbers higher than 1, then your server may be encountering some activity. The three numbers actually represent a snapshot of your server\u2019s load in 3 different states: First number \u2013 server load over one minute, second number server load over the past 5 minutes, and third number \u2013 server load over the past fifteen minutes. If you want to understand more about server loads, please see <a href=\"\/support\/server\/server-usage\/understanding-server-loads\/\">Understanding Server Loads<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><a href=\"\/support\/images\/stories\/view-load-processes\/load-averages-2.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox-0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/images\/stories\/view-load-processes\/load-averages-2.jpg\" alt=\"Load Averages\" style=\"width:597px;height:auto\"><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Looking at Server Load Averages using SSH<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>You will need to have <a href=\"\/support\/amp\/obtain-root-access\/\">root access<\/a> to the server in order to use these commands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are two commands that you can use for looking at server loads very quickly. In order to use them, you will need to <a href=\"\/support\/server\/ssh\/how-to-login-ssh\/\">login to SSH<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"\/support\/images\/stories\/load-averages-commandline\/uptime-cap.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox-0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/images\/stories\/load-averages-commandline\/uptime-cap.jpg\" alt=\"Uptime in use\"><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><b>uptime<\/b> \u2013 This command shows the current time, how long the system has been running, users logged in, and system load averages for the past 1, 5, and 15 minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"\/support\/images\/stories\/load-averages-commandline\/sar-q-cap.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox-0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/images\/stories\/load-averages-commandline\/sar-q-cap.jpg\" alt=\"sar -q in use\"><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><b>sar -q<\/b> \u2013 This command gives a history of the server load for the day that you run it. For example, if you run the command at 10:00 PM, then you\u2019ll see the history of the server load from 12:00 AM to 10:00 pm of that day. The command also includes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><b>runq-sz<\/b> \u2013 Run queue length (number of tasks waiting for run time)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><b>plist-sz<\/b> \u2013 Number of tasks in the task list<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><b>ldavg-1,ldavg-5, ldavg-15<\/b> \u2013 System load averages for the past 1, 5, and 15 minutes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to Quickly view Load Averages One of the quickest ways to see how your VPS and Dedicated Server is doing is to look at the Load Averages interface in the top right hand corner of the WHM. Here you will see a section called Load Averages followed by a set of numbers. By default,<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/edu\/whm\/viewing-load-averages-whm\/\"> Read More ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57014,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4289],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whm"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Viewing your Load Averages in WHM | InMotion Hosting<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"WHM gives you a quick snapshot of your server&#039;s load using a very simple 3 number system. 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