Re: High Load Average

["Petr \[Dingo\] Dvorak" <dingo@texoma.net>]

On Sun, 3 Jun 2001, Jordi S. Bunster wrote:

JSB> > you have a run away process and/or a memory leak
JSB> > 
JSB> > ( amd and intel cpu behave slightly differently for 
JSB> > ( the same code...
JSB> 
JSB> Mmm .. speaking about internal programs, we only have some perl
JSB> scripts. Perl is the compiled one, right?
JSB> 
JSB> > what apps is running???
JSB> 
JSB> We JUST installed the server. I mean, there's nothing hand
JSB> compiled, except for Amavis. But it doesn't eat that much CPU
JSB> time. In fact, top reveals that everyone uses CPU all the time. A
JSB> ipop3d session easily goes for 18%, and a apache or sendmail one
JSB> goes for 47% ~ 56%. It is just like everyone is using the machine
JSB> at its most.
JSB> 
JSB> Look:
JSB> 
JSB> 91 processes: 89 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
JSB> CPU states: 68.7% user, 31.2% system,  0.0% nice,  0.0% idle
JSB> Mem:  257856K av, 229104K used,  28752K free, 103600K shrd, 
JSB> 73192K buff
JSB> Swap: 128484K av,      0K used, 128484K free                
JSB> 86696K cached

check your bios settings, it looks like you have disabled external or internal
cache .. they should be both enabled .. and all other memory
region shadowing/caching should be disabled.

                                                Dingo.


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