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== High System Load ==
'''For performance problems related load, see [[High System Load]]'''
The system load is normally represented by the load average over the last 1, 5 and 15 minutes.
 
For example, the <code>uptime</code> command gives a single line summary of system uptime and recent load
 
<pre>
user@server:~$ uptime
14:28:49 up 9 days, 22:41,  1 user,  load average: 0.34, 0.36, 0.32
</pre>
 
So in the above, as of 14:28:49 hrs the server has been up for 9 days 22 hours odd, has 1 user logged in, and the system load averages for the past 1, 5, and 15 minutes are shown.
 
The load average for a given period indicates how many processes were running or in a uninterruptable (waiting for IO) state.  What's bad depends on your system, for a single CPU system a load average greater than 1 could be considered bad as there are more processes running than CPU's to service them.  Though if you expect peaks in load, then a high load over the last minute might not concern, whereas over 15mins it would.
 
The problem with investigating performance issues is that you need to know what is normal, so you can determine what's wrong once application/service performance deteriorates.  But its unlikely that you would have pain much attention to underlying system metrics until things are already bad.
 
=== <code>top</code> ===
The <code>top</code> command allows some basic insight into the system's performance, and is akin to the Task Manager in Windows.  It probably won't provide the answer as to what the problem is, but it will probably allow you to focus in on the process(es) that are causing grief.
 
<pre>
user@server:~$ top
top - 14:32:09 up 9 days, 22:44,  1 user,  load average: 0.70, 0.44, 0.34
Tasks: 137 total,  1 running, 136 sleeping,  0 stopped,  0 zombie
Cpu(s): 93.8%us,  6.2%sy,  0.0%ni,  0.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Mem:  1023360k total,  950520k used,    72840k free,    10836k buffers
Swap:  1757176k total,  1110228k used,  646948k free,  135524k cached
 
  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
6608 zimbra    20  0  556m  69m  12m S 69.1  6.9  0:03.26 java
17284 zimbra    20  0  649m 101m 3604 S  4.6 10.1  31:34.74 java
2610 zimbra    20  0  976m 181m 3700 S  0.7 18.1 133:06.68 java
    1 root      20  0 23580 1088  732 S  0.0  0.1  0:04.70 init
    2 root      20  0    0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0  0:00.01 kthreadd
    3 root      RT  0    0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0  0:00.00 migration/0
....
</pre>
 
Note that CPU metrics are with respect to 1 CPU, so on a multiple CPU system, seeing values > 100% is valid.
 
{|class="vwikitable-equal"
|+ Overview of CPU Metrics, % of CPU time spent on
! Code 
! <code> us </code>
! <code> sy </code>
! <code> ni </code>
! <code> id </code>
! <code> wa </code>
! <code> ha </code>
! <code> si </code>
! <code> st </code>
|-
! Name
| User CPU
| System CPU
| Nice CPU
| Idle CPU
| IO Wait
| Hardware Interrupts
| Software Interrupts
| Steal
|-
! Description
| user processes (excluding nice)
| kernel processes
| user nice processes (nice reduces the priority of process)
| idling (doing nothing)
| waiting for IO (high indicates disk/network bottleneck)
| hardware interrupts
| software interrupts
| servicing virtual machines
|}
 
 
 
{|class="vwikitable"
|+ Task column heading descriptions (to change what columns are shown press <code>f</code>)
! Key !! Display  !! Name !! Description
|-
| <code>a</code> || <code>PID</code> || Process ID || Task/process identifier
|-
| <code>b</code> || <code>PPID</code> || Parent PID || Task/process identifier of processes parent (ie the process that launched this process)
|-
| <code>c</code> || <code>RUSER</code> || Real User Name || Real username of task's owner
|-
| <code>d</code> || <code>UID</code> || User ID || User ID of task's owner
|-
| <code>e</code> || <code>USER</code> || User Name || Username ID of task's owner
|-
| <code>f</code> || <code>GROUP</code> || Group Name || Group name of task's owner
|-
| <code>g</code> || <code>TTY</code> || Controlling TTY || Device that started the process
|-
| <code>h</code> || <code>PR</code> || Priority || The task's priority
|-
| <code>i</code> || <code>NI</code> || Nice value || Adjusted task priority. From -20 meaning high priority, through 0 meaning unadjusted, to 19 meaning low priority
|-
| <code>j</code> || <code>P</code> || Last Used CPU || ID of the CPU last used by the task
|-
| <code>k</code> || <code>%CPU</code> || CPU Usage || Task's usage of CPU
|-
| <code>l</code> || <code>TIME</code> || CPU Time || Total CPU time used by the task
|-
| <code>m</code> || <code>TIME+</code> || CPU Time, hundredths || Total CPU time used by the task in sub-second accuracy
|-
| <code>n</code> || <code>%MEM</code> || Memory usage (RES) || Task's usage of available physical memory
|-
| <code>o</code> || <code>VIRT</code> || Virtual Image (kb) || Task's allocation of virtual memory
|-
| <code>p</code> || <code>SWAP</code> || Swapped size (kb) || Task's swapped memory (resident in swap-file)
|-
| <code>q</code> || <code>RES</code> || Resident size (kb) || Task's unswapped memory (resident in physical memory)
|-
| <code>r</code> || <code>CODE</code> || Code size (kb) || Task's virtual memory used for executable code
|-
| <code>s</code> || <code>DATA</code> || Data+Stack size (kb) || Task's virtual memory not used for executable code
|-
| <code>t</code> || <code>SHR</code> || Shared Mem size (kb) || Task's shared memory
|-
| <code>u</code> || <code>nFLT</code> || Page Fault count || Major/Hard page faults that have occurred for the task 
|-
| <code>v</code> || <code>nDRT</code> || Dirty Pages count || Tasks memory pages that have been modified since last write to disk, and so can be readily freed from physical memory
|-
| <code>w</code> || <code>S</code> || Process Status ||
* D - Uninterruptible sleep
* R - Running
* S - Sleeping
* T - Traced or Stopped
* Z - Zombie
|-
| <code>x</code> || <code>Command</code> || Command Line || Command used to start task
|-
| <code>y</code> || <code>WCHAN</code> || Sleeping in Function || Name (or address) of function that the task is sleeping in
|-
| <code>z</code> || <code>Flags</code> || Taks Flags || Task's scheduling flags
|}
 
 
==== Identify Process Causing Occasional High System Load ====
If the high load is constant, just fire up <code>top</code> and see if there is a specific process to blame, or if your stuck waiting for disk or network IO.
 
If the high load is transient but repetitive, then you'll need to capture the output of <code>top</code> at the right time, the following script will create a log of <code>top</code> output during periods of high load
 
<source lang="bash">#!/bin/bash
#
# During high load, write output form top to file.
#
# Simon Strutt - July 2012
 
LOGFILE="/home/user/load_log.txt"  # Update to a valid folder path
MAXLOAD=100                        # Multiple by 100 as 'if' comparison can only handle integers
 
LOAD=`cut -d ' ' -f 1 /proc/loadavg`
LOAD=`echo $LOAD '*100' | bc -l | awk -F '.' '{ print $1; exit; }'`    # Convert load to x100 integer
 
if [ $LOAD -gt $MAXLOAD ]; then
        echo `date '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'`>> ${LOGFILE}
        top -b -n 1 >> ${LOGFILE}
fi</source>
 
Schedule with something like (update with correct path to <code>load_log</code>...
<pre>crontab -e
1 * * * * /bin/bash  /home/user/load_log</pre>
 
=== <code> vmstat </code> ===
[http://www.linuxcommand.org/man_pages/vmstat8.html <code>vmstat</code>] is principally used for reporting on virtual memory statistics, for example <code> vmstat 5 3 </code> creates an output every 5 seconds for 3 iterations,
<pre>user@server:~$ vmstat 5 3
procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system-- ----cpu----
r  b  swpd  free  buff  cache  si  so    bi    bo  in  cs us sy id wa
0  0  42676 479556  34192 106944    5    5    31  3678  84  89  9  9 75  7
0  0  42676 479548  34208 106948    0    0    0    10  50  105  6  0 88  5
0  0  42676 479548  34216 106948    0    0    0    18  37  61  0  0 96  4 </pre>
 
Note that the first line of output contains average/total counts since system start, with subsequent output being for the period since the last line of output.
 
{|class="vwikitable-equal"
|+ Overview of VMSTAT Metrics
! Section
! colspan="2"| Procs
! colspan="4"| Memory
! colspan="2"| Swap
! colspan="2"| IO
! colspan="2"| System
! colspan="4"| CPU
|-
! Code
! <code> r </code>
! <code> b </code>
! <code> swpd </code>
! <code> free </code>
! <code> buff </code>
! <code> cache </code>
! <code> si </code>
! <code> so </code>
! <code> bi </code>
! <code> bo </code>
! <code> in </code>
! <code> cs </code>
! <code> us </code>
! <code> sy </code>
! <code> id </code>
! <code> wa </code>
|-
! Name
| style="text-align: center;" | Run
| style="text-align: center;" | Block
| style="text-align: center;" | Swap<br>(kB)
| style="text-align: center;" | Free<br>(kB)
| style="text-align: center;" | Buffer<br>(kB)
| style="text-align: center;" | Cache<br>(kB)
| style="text-align: center;" | Swap In<br>(kB/s)
| style="text-align: center;" | Swap Out<br>(kB/s)
| style="text-align: center;" | Blocks In<br>(blocks/s)
| style="text-align: center;" | Blocks Out<br>(blocks/s)
| style="text-align: center;" | Interrupts<br>(/s)
| style="text-align: center;" | Context Switch<br>(/s)
| style="text-align: center;" | User<br>(% time)
| style="text-align: center;" | System<br>(% time)
| style="text-align: center;" | Idle<br>(% time)
| style="text-align: center;" | Wait<br>(% time)
|-
! Description
| Processes waiting for run time
| Processes in uninterruptible sleep (eg waiting for IO)
| Virtual memory used
| Unused memory
| Memory used as buffers
| Memory used as cache
| Memory swapped in from disk
| Memory swapped out to disk
| Blocks in from a storage device
| Blocks out from a storage device
| Interrupts
| Context switches
| CPU running user processes
| CPU running kernel processes
| CPU idle
| CPU waiting for IO
|}
 
=== <code> mpstat </code> ===
[http://www.linuxcommand.org/man_pages/mpstat1.html <code>mpstat</code>] reports on basic processor stats.  It creates a timestamped output which is useful to leave running on a console (or logged to a file) for when you might here or find out about service performance problems after the fact. A number of the metrics are also provided by <code>[[#vmstat|vmstat]]</code>, but are reported to a greater accuracy by <code>mpstat</code>.
 
Its not available by default, and comes as part of the [http://sebastien.godard.pagesperso-orange.fr/ <code>sysstat</code>] package (to install, use <code>apt-get install sysstat</code>).
 
For example <code> mpstat 5 3 </code> creates an output every 5 seconds for 3 iterations,
<pre>user@server:~# mpstat 5 3
Linux 2.6.32-41-server (server)  25/07/12        _x86_64_        (1 CPU)
 
11:50:59    CPU    %usr  %nice    %sys %iowait    %irq  %soft  %steal  %guest  %idle
11:51:04    all    1.00    0.00    0.80    1.60    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00  96.60
11:51:09    all    4.60    0.00    0.40    2.60    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00  92.40
11:51:14    all  43.20    0.00    6.00    3.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00  47.80
Average:    all  16.27    0.00    2.40    2.40    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00  78.93 </pre>
 
{|class="vwikitable-equal"
|+ Overview of MPSTAT Metrics
! Code
! <code> CPU </code>
! <code> %usr </code>
! <code> %nice </code>
! <code> %sys </code>
! <code> %iowait </code>
! <code> %irq </code>
! <code> %soft </code>
! <code> %steal </code>
! <code> %guest </code>
! <code> %idle </code>
|-
! Name
| style="text-align: center;" | CPU No.
| style="text-align: center;" | User<br>(% util)
| style="text-align: center;" | Nice<br>(% util)
| style="text-align: center;" | System<br>(% util)
| style="text-align: center;" | IO Wait<br>(% time)
| style="text-align: center;" | Hard IRQ<br>(% time)
| style="text-align: center;" | Soft IRQ<br>(% time)
| style="text-align: center;" | Steal<br>(% time)
| style="text-align: center;" | Guest In<br>(% time)
| style="text-align: center;" | Idle<br>(% time)
|-
! Description
| CPU number (or ''ALL'')<br>Set with <code>-P <n></code> option switch
| CPU running user processes
| CPU running nice (adjusted priority) user processes
| CPU running kernel processes (excludes [[Acronyms#I|IRQ]]s)
| CPU waiting for (disk) IO
| CPU servicing hardware interrupts
| CPU servicing software interrupts
| Virtual CPU wait due to CPU busy with other [[Acronyms#V|vCPU]]
| CPU servicing vCPU(s)
| CPU idle
|}
 
=== <code> iostat </code> ===
[http://www.linuxcommand.org/man_pages/iostat1.html <code>iostat</code>] reports on IO (and CPU) stats.
 
Its not available by default, and comes as part of the [http://sebastien.godard.pagesperso-orange.fr/ <code>sysstat</code>] package (to install, use <code>apt-get install sysstat</code>).
 
IO stats can be displayed either by device (default, and extra metrics with <code>-x</code> switch) or by partition (<code>-p</code> switch).  Note that the first line of output contains average/total counts since system start, with subsequent output being for the period since the last line of output.
 
Device stats output...
<pre>root@servername:~# iostat -x 5 3
Linux 2.6.32-41-server (servername)  25/07/12        _x86_64_        (1 CPU)
 
avg-cpu:  %user  %nice %system %iowait  %steal  %idle
          11.56    0.54    2.17    6.67    0.00  79.06
 
Device:        rrqm/s  wrqm/s    r/s    w/s  rsec/s  wsec/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz  await  svctm  %util
sda              18.89    9.63    6.36    8.83  367.22  146.02    33.78    0.34  22.18  5.73  8.70
dm-0              0.00    0.00    3.16  10.68  190.37    86.53    20.01    0.62  44.79  2.18  3.02
dm-1              0.00    0.00  22.11    7.44  176.85    59.48    8.00    0.71  23.92  2.21  6.52
 
avg-cpu:  %user  %nice %system %iowait  %steal  %idle
          45.18    0.00    5.02    0.40    0.00  49.40
 
Device:        rrqm/s  wrqm/s    r/s    w/s  rsec/s  wsec/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz  await  svctm  %util
sda              0.00    4.82    0.20    3.82    1.61    65.86    16.80    0.02    4.50  4.00  1.61
dm-0              0.00    0.00    0.20    8.23    1.61    65.86    8.00    0.07    7.86  1.90  1.61
dm-1              0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00  0.00  0.00
 
avg-cpu:  %user  %nice %system %iowait  %steal  %idle
          95.80    0.00    4.20    0.00    0.00    0.00
 
Device:        rrqm/s  wrqm/s    r/s    w/s  rsec/s  wsec/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz  await  svctm  %util
sda              0.00    11.80    0.00    8.20    0.00  156.80    19.12    0.06    7.07  0.24  0.20
dm-0              0.00    0.00    0.00  19.60    0.00  156.80    8.00    0.18    8.98  0.10  0.20
dm-1              0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00  0.00  0.00 </pre>
 
Partition stats output...
<pre>root@servername:~# iostat -t -p 5 3
Linux 2.6.32-41-server (servername)  30/07/12        _x86_64_        (1 CPU)
 
30/07/12 12:05:15
avg-cpu:  %user  %nice %system %iowait  %steal  %idle
          0.33    0.32    0.12    0.27    0.00  98.96
 
Device:            tps  Blk_read/s  Blk_wrtn/s  Blk_read  Blk_wrtn
sda              1.12        13.57        14.71    721218    782038
sda1              0.00        0.02        0.00        804        14
sda2              0.00        0.00        0.00          4          0
sda5              0.91        13.54        14.71    719994    782024
dm-0              2.23        13.49        14.45    716850    768240
dm-1              0.04        0.05        0.26      2632      13784
 
30/07/12 12:05:20
avg-cpu:  %user  %nice %system %iowait  %steal  %idle
          0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00  100.00
 
Device:            tps  Blk_read/s  Blk_wrtn/s  Blk_read  Blk_wrtn
sda              1.20        0.00        14.40          0        72
sda1              0.00        0.00        0.00          0          0
sda2              0.00        0.00        0.00          0          0
sda5              0.80        0.00        14.40          0        72
dm-0              1.80        0.00        14.40          0        72
dm-1              0.00        0.00        0.00          0          0
 
30/07/12 12:05:25
avg-cpu:  %user  %nice %system %iowait  %steal  %idle
          0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00  100.00
 
Device:            tps  Blk_read/s  Blk_wrtn/s  Blk_read  Blk_wrtn
sda              0.00        0.00        0.00          0          0
sda1              0.00        0.00        0.00          0          0
sda2              0.00        0.00        0.00          0          0
sda5              0.00        0.00        0.00          0          0
dm-0              0.00        0.00        0.00          0          0
dm-1              0.00        0.00        0.00          0          0</pre>
 
{|class="vwikitable-equal"
|+ Overview of IOSTAT Device Metrics
! Stats
! colspan="10"| Device IO Stats
! colspan="5"| Partition IO Stats
|-
! Code
! <code> rrqm/s </code>
! <code> wrqm/s </code>
! <code> r/s </code>
! <code> w/s </code>
! <code> rsec/s </code>
! <code> wsec/s </code>
! <code> avgrq-sz </code>
! <code> avgqu-sz </code>
! <code> svctm </code>
! <code> %util </code>
! <code> tps </code>
! <code> Blk_read/s </code>
! <code> Blk_wrtn/s </code>
! <code> Blk_read </code>
! <code> Blk_wrtn </code>
|-
! Name
| style="text-align: center;" | Read Merge<br>(/s)
| style="text-align: center;" | Write Merge<br>(/s)
| style="text-align: center;" | Read<br>(/s)
| style="text-align: center;" | Write<br>(/s))
| style="text-align: center;" | Read<br>(sectors/s)
| style="text-align: center;" | Write<br>(sectors/s)
| style="text-align: center;" | Av. Req. Size<br>(sectors)
| style="text-align: center;" | Av. Queue Len.<br>(sectors)
| style="text-align: center;" | Av. Service Time<br>(msec)
| style="text-align: center;" | Utilisation<br>(% CPU Time)
| style="text-align: center;" | Transfers<br>(/s)
| style="text-align: center;" | Read<br>(blocks/s)
| style="text-align: center;" | Write<br>(blocks/s)
| style="text-align: center;" | Read<br>(blocks)
| style="text-align: center;" | Write<br>(blocks)
|-
! Description
| Read requests merged
| Write requests merged
| Read requests
| Write requests
| Sector reads
| Sector writes
| Average read/write request size
| Average request queue length
| Average time to service requests
| Bandwidth utilisation / device saturation
| IO transfer rate (TPS - Transfers Per Second)
| Data read
| Data write
| Data read
| Data write
|}
 
If when using the above tools you're presented with disk/devices names of <code>dm-0</code>, <code>dm-1</code>, etc., which won't mean much.  These are LVM logical devices, to understand what they map to use
<pre>lvdisplay|awk  '/LV Name/{n=$3} /Block device/{d=$3; sub(".*:","dm-",d); print d,n;}'</pre>


== Network ==
== Network ==
Line 489: Line 62:
To see which packages caused this to be set, inspect the contents of...
To see which packages caused this to be set, inspect the contents of...
  /var/run/reboot-required.pkgs
  /var/run/reboot-required.pkgs
== Firewall ==
=== ERROR: problem running ufw-init ===
If on starting or reloading <code>ufw</code> you receive this error, its likely that you have a configuration problem.  This is especially likely if you've needed to edit <code>ufw</code>'s config files directly.
# Ensure that <code>ufw</code> is running
#* <code> ufw enable </code>
# Force the config to be reloaded
#* <code> /lib/ufw/ufw-init force-reload </code>
# Or if <code>ufw</code> failed to start use
#* <code> /lib/ufw/ufw-init start </code>
Doing the above should trigger the error, and present a better description of what the problem is
See http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1660916 for further info


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