Re: High Load Average
> 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
13532 root 0 0 1552 1552 1200 S 0 0.7 0.6
0:00 sendmail
177 root 0 0 4160 4160 804 S 0 0.5 1.6
2:30 named
11006 www-data 0 0 7632 7632 4776 S 0 0.5 2.9
0:01 apache
13271 www-data 0 0 4804 4804 4656 S 0 0.5 1.8
0:00 apache
13673 root 11 0 464 464 296 R 0 0.5 0.1
0:00 file
11825 root 0 0 1480 1480 1220 S 0 0.3 0.5
0:00 sshd
12136 rosanak 1 0 1460 1460 972 S 0 0.3 0.5
0:00 ipop3d
13529 root 0 0 1412 1412 1200 S 0 0.3 0.5
0:00 sendmail
13627 root 0 0 1396 1396 1160 S 0 0.3 0.5
0:00 sendmail
357 root 0 0 1212 1212 1072 S 0 0.1 0.4
0:06 sendmail
15976 thomas 0 0 5752 5752 972 S 0 0.1 2.2
0:06 ipop3d
11525 www-data 0 0 4828 4828 4680 S 0 0.1 1.8
0:00 apache
1 root 0 0 472 472 400 S 0 0.0 0.1
0:12 init
2 root 0 0 0 0 0 SW 0 0.0 0.0
0:00 kflushd
3 root 0 0 0 0 0 SW 0 0.0 0.0
0:03 kupdate
4 root 0 0 0 0 0 SW 0 0.0 0.0
0:02 kswapd
5 root 0 0 0 0 0 SW 0 0.0 0.0
0:00 keventd
6 root -20 -20 0 0 0 SW< 0 0.0 0.0
0:00 mdrecoveryd
102 daemon 0 0 492 492 408 S 0 0.0 0.1
0:00 portmap
172 root 0 0 760 760 384 S 0 0.0 0.2
0:00 klogd
230 root 0 0 440 440 376 S 0 0.0 0.1
0:00 gpm
241 root 0 0 560 560 476 S 0 0.0 0.2
0:00 lpd
356 root 0 0 1188 1188 832 S 0 0.0 0.4
0:02 nmbd
371 root 0 0 1204 1204 532 S 0 0.0 0.4
0:00 xfs
380 root 0 0 1548 1548 1320 S 0 0.0 0.6
0:00 ntpd
398 root 0 0 848 844 684 S 0 0.0 0.3
0:00 radwatch
399 root 0 0 856 856 792 S 0 0.0 0.3
0:02 radiusd
438 root 0 0 844 844 788 S 0 0.0 0.3
0:13 radiusd
469 root 0 0 616 616 512 S 0 0.0 0.2
0:00 cron
6613 root 0 0 440 440 376 S 0 0.0 0.1
0:00 getty
22159 root 0 0 584 584 500 S 0 0.0 0.2
0:03 inetd
31116 root 0 0 1224 1224 644 S 0 0.0 0.4
0:00 smbmount-2.2
31129 root 0 0 1216 1216 744 S 0 0.0 0.4
0:00 smbmount-2.2
31141 root 0 0 1220 1220 744 S 0 0.0 0.4
0:00 smbmount-2.2
31159 root 0 0 1220 1220 744 S 0 0.0 0.4
0:00 smbmount-2.2
31172 root 0 0 1220 1220 744 S 0 0.0 0.4
0:00 smbmount-2.2
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.
Jordi S. Bunster
<jsb@nautilus.com.br>
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