[Alan_SP]

Originally Posted by Marv

The reason why I?m typing this essay: since we?ve installed DBSEO we watched the server closely to see how hard it hits regarding server-performance. By now we?ve noticed that our CPU-load more than doubled and is running with up to 140% (w/o DBSEO 50-70) on a permanantly basis and also we see server load averages (1:5:15) with ~ 1.49:1.66:1.69 (w/o DBSEO ~ 0.7:0.8:0.7). (Server specs: Opteron 6338P with 12 Cores x 2,3 GHz, 32 GB DDR3 ECC, latest CentOS and SQL versions)

Did you had vBSEO and what situation was then?

Anyway, about server load averages, this is nothing and you have at the moment a lot of room for your server.

Each core (you have 12) is represented with 1 when it's up to 100% load in server load averages. So, if your server would run with 50% load, you'd see something like: 6:6:6 (well, the number of the beast ). You could interpret it like 6 cores run to the max and 6 aren't working at all. Or any other way you want to.

Having 1,5 load would be problem on 1 core server. With 2 core server would be actually just fine.

And these values aren't exactly linear, but give you idea how hard your server works. Anyway, you still have a lot of room for loading your server up. A really very lot of room. Your server works with about 10% load, which is nothing. Probably you don't need so strong server (if it is your peek load, of course).