Re: High Load Average
On Sun, 3 Jun 2001 23:18:41 -0300 (BRT)
"Jordi S. Bunster" <jsb@nautilus.com.br> wrote:
>
> > you have a run away process and/or a memory leak
> >
> > ( amd and intel cpu behave slightly differently for
> > ( the same code...
>
> Mmm .. speaking about internal programs, we only have some perl
> scripts. Perl is the compiled one, right?
>
> > what apps is running???
>
> We JUST installed the server. I mean, there's nothing hand
> compiled, except for Amavis. But it doesn't eat that much CPU
> time. In fact, top reveals that everyone uses CPU all the time. A
> ipop3d session easily goes for 18%, and a apache or sendmail one
> goes for 47% ~ 56%. It is just like everyone is using the machine
> at its most.
>
> Look:
>
> 91 processes: 89 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
> CPU states: 68.7% user, 31.2% system, 0.0% nice, 0.0% idle
> Mem: 257856K av, 229104K used, 28752K free, 103600K shrd,
> 73192K buff
> Swap: 128484K av, 0K used, 128484K free
> 86696K cached
>
> PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT LIB %CPU %MEM
> TIME COMMAND
> 170 root 0 0 632 632 516 S 0 5.3 0.2
> 6:00 syslogd
> 13533 root 10 0 1124 1120 780 S 0 4.3 0.4
> 0:00 scanmails
> 12172 jsb 8 0 1192 1192 688 R 0 4.1 0.4
> 0:03 top
[...]
>
> At this moment, Load is a little bit lower (about 4), but idle is
> still 0%. Quite weird uh?
>
> If any command output is helpful, please let me know.
Your table isn't very meaningful, as it doesn't show even 20% of
load. It might take a while to see. But as you say that all are
usually high, maybe you've got a kernel problem, maybe due to a
hardware (IRQ?) conflict. Just a quick guess.
--
Christoph Simon
datageo@terra.com.br
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