Worth trying: sar -q for a rundown of queue lengths and load averages. Also pstree and I need to sort out what this:
I reniced the gzip process with a low priority level to reduce the load it’s putting on your server. I’d recommend running these scripts with a +19 niceness during periods low traffic to reduce the impact they’re having on your server.
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niceandrenicecan be used to set priority for the various jobs you have running. As I understand it, load averages above 1 mean that there’s more than one job queued up for the processor at any given time; the niceness of your process determines which job makes it through first. Levels are from -20 to +20, and any user can make their process more nice, but only the superuser can make their process less nice.Usage:
niceor
renice +20