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Re: postfix: very long startup time (few minutes)



Kourosh wrote:
Could it be that somewhere in the script is a FQDN, possibly that of your machine, and that the delay
is a DNS lookup that times out?  Do you have localhost
and your machines domain name in the hosts file to avoid
unneccesary DNS lookups?

yes, the name is in /etc/hosts. in addition to that when the system stops there is continuous HD activity. So I guess something must be going on. Just can't figure out what...

	erik



Regards.

Kourosh

On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 10:09:00PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote:

Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote:

-- Erik Steffl <steffl@bigfoot.com> wrote
(on Sunday, 06 October 2002, 08:43 PM -0700):


for some reason the postfix thatkes a LONG time to startup (during boot). any ideas why? It seems like it's getting worse over time.

this is on debian unstable.

I've used postfix on unstable and testing, and don't see this.



I don't have too many emails and I am not aware of any long queues waiting, this is on my personal workstation, I get few hundred emails a day (mostly mailing lists), send only few emails a day and normal operation of computer seems to be unaffected by email, the only problem is when the postfix service is started.

I am not 100% sure it's postfix, at the time when it's started the system is not up yet. restarting postfix doesn't take too long - less than 1 second (/etc/init.d/postfix stop; /etc/init.d/postfix start).

It *probably* isn't postfix, then. Is this the last daemon to start
during boot? Even if it isn't, it's possible that a previous daemon or

how would the other deamon stop the postfix from continuing? I see the postfix start line, then nothing moves for few minutes, disk is busy, then I get next daemon's start line. I mean no matter how busy the system would be doing whatever else it might be doing the postfix would STOP for few minutes (when I restart it once the system is booted up it takes less then a second to start).



the next daemon in the boot order is causing the delay. I know, for
instance, that on my machine, the USB routines will be showing
on-screen, and I'll have a delay before the last item shows... but that
this is due to my webserver taking a while to load (on average, about
10-15 seconds!). You might try going through each of the scripts in your
default runlevel to see which ones have delays. If postfix doesn't take
long to start when you do it manually, my bet is you'll find another
script in there that does.

I went over all of them (the ones that seemed relevant). Nothing takes longer that about a second to start, except of postgresql that takes maybe 2 - 5 seconds.

the next step was running top -b (I added it on the beginning of the postfix), I see the echo I added so I assume the top starts running at the beginning of the delay. however top doesn't show anything interesting, no high load, no program (even low load) stays near top too long...

the only suspicious process running is find - the only script that runs find is fetchmail and it starts quite fast...

not sure what to do... I'll probably start removing the startup scripts one by one and see what happens...

 any better ideas?

 btw here's the top output (filtered out a bit)

21:41:23 up 0 min,  0 users,  load average: 1.33, 0.33, 0.11
35 processes: 34 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states:   3.5% user,  11.5% system,   0.0% nice,  85.0% idle
Mem:    385460K total,    63436K used,   322024K free,     2856K buffers
Swap:   243104K total,        0K used,   243104K free,    42984K cached

 PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
 418 cyrus     14   0  1408 1408  1216 D     1.9  0.3   0:00 ctl_deliver
 422 root      16   0  1856 1856  1428 S     0.9  0.4   0:00 omniNames
   1 root       8   0   476  476   408 S     0.0  0.1   0:04 init

21:41:28 up 0 min,  0 users,  load average: 1.46, 0.37, 0.12
39 processes: 37 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states:   5.2% user,   2.0% system,   0.0% nice,  92.8% idle
Mem:    385460K total,    65320K used,   320140K free,     3008K buffers
Swap:   243104K total,        0K used,   243104K free,    43788K cached

 PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
 418 cyrus      9   0  1460 1460  1268 D     0.7  0.3   0:00 ctl_deliver
451 root 13 0 1180 1180 928 S 0.3 0.3 0:00 postfix-script
   6 root      10   0     0    0     0 DW    0.1  0.0   0:00 kupdated

21:41:33 up 1 min,  0 users,  load average: 1.58, 0.42, 0.14
39 processes: 38 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states:   2.2% user,   1.4% system,   0.0% nice,  96.4% idle
Mem:    385460K total,    66136K used,   319324K free,     3124K buffers
Swap:   243104K total,        0K used,   243104K free,    44292K cached

 PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
 417 cyrus     19   0  1224 1224   928 D     1.9  0.3   0:00 ctl_cyrusdb
 217 root      12   0   780  780   660 S     0.5  0.2   0:00 syslogd
 418 cyrus     12   0  1532 1532  1340 D     0.5  0.3   0:00 ctl_deliver
 424 root      10   0   920  920   728 R     0.1  0.2   0:00 top

21:41:38 up 1 min,  0 users,  load average: 1.78, 0.48, 0.16
39 processes: 38 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states:   0.0% user,   0.2% system,   0.0% nice,  99.8% idle
Mem:    385460K total,    66608K used,   318852K free,     3200K buffers
Swap:   243104K total,        0K used,   243104K free,    44620K cached

 PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
   1 root       8   0   476  476   408 S     0.0  0.1   0:04 init
   2 root       9   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00 keventd
3 root 19 19 0 0 0 SWN 0.0 0.0 0:00 ksoftirqd_CPU0

21:41:43 up 1 min,  0 users,  load average: 1.95, 0.53, 0.18
39 processes: 37 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states:   0.8% user,   0.4% system,   0.0% nice,  98.8% idle
Mem:    385460K total,    67092K used,   318368K free,     3248K buffers
Swap:   243104K total,        0K used,   243104K free,    44980K cached

 PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
 418 cyrus     15   0  1536 1536  1344 D     0.5  0.3   0:00 ctl_deliver
 424 root      11   0   920  920   728 R     0.1  0.2   0:00 top
   1 root       8   0   476  476   408 S     0.0  0.1   0:04 init
   2 root       9   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00 keventd

21:41:48 up 1 min,  0 users,  load average: 2.12, 0.59, 0.20
39 processes: 36 sleeping, 3 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states:   0.8% user,   0.4% system,   0.0% nice,  98.8% idle
Mem:    385460K total,    67572K used,   317888K free,     3292K buffers
Swap:   243104K total,        0K used,   243104K free,    45340K cached

 PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
 418 cyrus     13   0  1536 1536  1344 R     0.3  0.3   0:00 ctl_deliver
 217 root      11   0   780  780   660 S     0.1  0.2   0:00 syslogd
 417 cyrus     14   0  1224 1224   928 R     0.1  0.3   0:00 ctl_cyrusdb

21:41:53 up 1 min,  0 users,  load average: 2.27, 0.65, 0.22
39 processes: 38 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states:   0.6% user,   0.4% system,   0.0% nice,  99.0% idle
Mem:    385460K total,    68060K used,   317400K free,     3340K buffers
Swap:   243104K total,        0K used,   243104K free,    45708K cached

 PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
 217 root      12   0   780  780   660 S     0.1  0.2   0:00 syslogd
 418 cyrus     14   0  1536 1536  1344 D     0.1  0.3   0:00 ctl_deliver
 424 root      11   0   920  920   728 R     0.1  0.2   0:00 top
 481 root      12   0   564  564   476 D     0.1  0.1   0:00 find

21:41:58 up 1 min,  0 users,  load average: 2.41, 0.70, 0.24
39 processes: 38 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states:   1.0% user,   0.4% system,   0.0% nice,  98.6% idle
Mem:    385460K total,    68464K used,   316996K free,     3396K buffers
Swap:   243104K total,        0K used,   243104K free,    45992K cached

 PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
 418 cyrus     17   0  1536 1536  1344 D     0.5  0.3   0:00 ctl_deliver
   6 root      10   0     0    0     0 DW    0.1  0.0   0:00 kupdated
 217 root      13   0   780  780   660 S     0.1  0.2   0:00 syslogd

21:42:03 up 1 min,  0 users,  load average: 2.53, 0.76, 0.26
39 processes: 38 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states:   0.4% user,   0.6% system,   0.0% nice,  99.0% idle
Mem:    385460K total,    68876K used,   316584K free,     3420K buffers
Swap:   243104K total,        0K used,   243104K free,    46316K cached

 PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
 418 cyrus     19   0  1536 1536  1344 D     0.3  0.3   0:00 ctl_deliver
 424 root      13   0   920  920   728 R     0.1  0.2   0:00 top
   1 root       8   0   476  476   408 S     0.0  0.1   0:04 init
   2 root       9   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00 keventd

21:42:08 up 1 min,  0 users,  load average: 2.65, 0.81, 0.28
39 processes: 37 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states:   0.2% user,   0.2% system,   0.0% nice,  99.6% idle
Mem:    385460K total,    69332K used,   316128K free,     3464K buffers
Swap:   243104K total,        0K used,   243104K free,    46656K cached

 PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
 424 root      14   0   920  920   728 R     0.1  0.2   0:00 top
   1 root       8   0   476  476   408 S     0.0  0.1   0:04 init
   2 root       9   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00 keventd
3 root 19 19 0 0 0 SWN 0.0 0.0 0:00 ksoftirqd_CPU0

21:42:13 up 1 min,  0 users,  load average: 2.76, 0.86, 0.30
39 processes: 38 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states:   0.0% user,   1.0% system,   0.0% nice,  99.0% idle
Mem:    385460K total,    69724K used,   315736K free,     3484K buffers
Swap:   243104K total,        0K used,   243104K free,    46956K cached

 PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
 481 root      16   0   564  564   476 D     0.5  0.1   0:00 find
   1 root       8   0   476  476   408 S     0.0  0.1   0:04 init
   2 root       9   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00 keventd
3 root 19 19 0 0 0 SWN 0.0 0.0 0:00 ksoftirqd_CPU0

21:42:18 up 1 min,  0 users,  load average: 2.78, 0.90, 0.31
38 processes: 37 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states:   0.0% user,   0.2% system,   0.0% nice,  99.8% idle
Mem:    385460K total,    69940K used,   315520K free,     3536K buffers
Swap:   243104K total,        0K used,   243104K free,    47272K cached

 PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
   1 root       8   0   476  476   408 S     0.0  0.1   0:04 init
   2 root       9   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00 keventd
3 root 19 19 0 0 0 SWN 0.0 0.0 0:00 ksoftirqd_CPU0
   4 root       9   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00 kswapd

21:42:23 up 1 min,  0 users,  load average: 2.80, 0.93, 0.33
38 processes: 37 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states:   0.0% user,   0.0% system,   0.0% nice,  100.0% idle
Mem:    385460K total,    70304K used,   315156K free,     3592K buffers
Swap:   243104K total,        0K used,   243104K free,    47516K cached

 PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
   1 root       8   0   476  476   408 S     0.0  0.1   0:04 init
   2 root       9   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00 keventd
3 root 19 19 0 0 0 SWN 0.0 0.0 0:00 ksoftirqd_CPU0
   4 root       9   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00 kswapd

21:42:28 up 1 min,  0 users,  load average: 2.81, 0.97, 0.34
38 processes: 36 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states:   0.0% user,   0.6% system,   0.0% nice,  99.4% idle
Mem:    385460K total,    70700K used,   314760K free,     3648K buffers
Swap:   243104K total,        0K used,   243104K free,    47788K cached

 PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
   1 root       8   0   476  476   408 S     0.0  0.1   0:04 init
   2 root       9   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00 keventd
3 root 19 19 0 0 0 SWN 0.0 0.0 0:00 ksoftirqd_CPU0

21:42:33 up 2 min,  0 users,  load average: 2.83, 1.00, 0.36
38 processes: 37 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states:   0.0% user,   0.0% system,   0.0% nice,  100.0% idle
Mem:    385460K total,    71096K used,   314364K free,     3692K buffers
Swap:   243104K total,        0K used,   243104K free,    48068K cached

 PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
   1 root       8   0   476  476   408 S     0.0  0.1   0:04 init
   2 root       9   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00 keventd
3 root 19 19 0 0 0 SWN 0.0 0.0 0:00 ksoftirqd_CPU0

21:42:38 up 2 min,  0 users,  load average: 2.84, 1.03, 0.37
38 processes: 36 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states:   0.0% user,   0.4% system,   0.0% nice,  99.6% idle
Mem:    385460K total,    71488K used,   313972K free,     3720K buffers
Swap:   243104K total,        0K used,   243104K free,    48360K cached

 PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
 481 root      17   0   564  564   476 R     0.1  0.1   0:00 find
   1 root       8   0   476  476   408 S     0.0  0.1   0:04 init
   2 root       9   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00 keventd
3 root 19 19 0 0 0 SWN 0.0 0.0 0:00 ksoftirqd_CPU0

21:42:43 up 2 min,  0 users,  load average: 2.85, 1.07, 0.38
38 processes: 37 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states:   0.2% user,   0.4% system,   0.0% nice,  99.4% idle
Mem:    385460K total,    71920K used,   313540K free,     3748K buffers
Swap:   243104K total,        0K used,   243104K free,    48684K cached

 PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
 481 root      18   0   564  564   476 D     0.1  0.1   0:00 find
   1 root       8   0   476  476   408 S     0.0  0.1   0:04 init
   2 root       9   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00 keventd
3 root 19 19 0 0 0 SWN 0.0 0.0 0:00 ksoftirqd_CPU0

21:42:48 up 2 min,  0 users,  load average: 2.86, 1.10, 0.40
38 processes: 37 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states:   0.2% user,   0.8% system,   0.0% nice,  99.0% idle
Mem:    385460K total,    72368K used,   313092K free,     3776K buffers
Swap:   243104K total,        0K used,   243104K free,    49020K cached

 PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
 481 root      19   0   564  564   476 D     0.1  0.1   0:00 find
   1 root       8   0   476  476   408 S     0.0  0.1   0:04 init
   2 root       9   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00 keventd
3 root 19 19 0 0 0 SWN 0.0 0.0 0:00 ksoftirqd_CPU0

21:42:53 up 2 min,  0 users,  load average: 2.87, 1.13, 0.41
38 processes: 37 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states:   0.2% user,   0.2% system,   0.0% nice,  99.6% idle
Mem:    385460K total,    72804K used,   312656K free,     3784K buffers
Swap:   243104K total,        0K used,   243104K free,    49364K cached

 PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
 481 root      14   0   564  564   476 D     0.1  0.1   0:00 find
   1 root       8   0   476  476   408 S     0.0  0.1   0:04 init
   2 root       9   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00 keventd
3 root 19 19 0 0 0 SWN 0.0 0.0 0:00 ksoftirqd_CPU0

21:42:58 up 2 min,  0 users,  load average: 2.88, 1.16, 0.43
38 processes: 37 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states:   0.0% user,   0.0% system,   0.0% nice,  100.0% idle
Mem:    385460K total,    73248K used,   312212K free,     3820K buffers
Swap:   243104K total,        0K used,   243104K free,    49692K cached

 PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
   1 root       8   0   476  476   408 S     0.0  0.1   0:04 init
   2 root       9   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00 keventd
3 root 19 19 0 0 0 SWN 0.0 0.0 0:00 ksoftirqd_CPU0
   4 root       9   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00 kswapd

21:43:03 up 2 min,  0 users,  load average: 2.89, 1.19, 0.44
38 processes: 37 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states:   0.0% user,   0.0% system,   0.0% nice,  100.0% idle
Mem:    385460K total,    73648K used,   311812K free,     3848K buffers
Swap:   243104K total,        0K used,   243104K free,    49992K cached

 PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
   1 root       8   0   476  476   408 S     0.0  0.1   0:04 init
   2 root       9   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00 keventd
3 root 19 19 0 0 0 SWN 0.0 0.0 0:00 ksoftirqd_CPU0
   4 root       9   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00 kswapd
   5 root       9   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00 bdflush

21:43:08 up 2 min,  0 users,  load average: 2.90, 1.22, 0.45
38 processes: 36 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states:   0.0% user,   0.0% system,   0.0% nice,  100.0% idle
Mem:    385460K total,    74088K used,   311372K free,     3896K buffers
Swap:   243104K total,        0K used,   243104K free,    50304K cached

 PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
   1 root       8   0   476  476   408 S     0.0  0.1   0:04 init
   2 root       9   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00 keventd
3 root 19 19 0 0 0 SWN 0.0 0.0 0:00 ksoftirqd_CPU0
   4 root       9   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00 kswapd
   5 root       9   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00 bdflush

21:43:13 up 2 min,  0 users,  load average: 2.91, 1.25, 0.47
38 processes: 36 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states:   0.2% user,   0.0% system,   0.0% nice,  99.8% idle
Mem:    385460K total,    74560K used,   310900K free,     3932K buffers
Swap:   243104K total,        0K used,   243104K free,    50652K cached

 PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
 481 root      15   0   564  564   476 D     0.1  0.1   0:00 find
   1 root       8   0   476  476   408 S     0.0  0.1   0:04 init
   2 root       9   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00 keventd
3 root 19 19 0 0 0 SWN 0.0 0.0 0:00 ksoftirqd_CPU0
   4 root       9   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00 kswapd

21:43:18 up 2 min,  0 users,  load average: 2.92, 1.28, 0.48
39 processes: 35 sleeping, 3 running, 1 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states:   2.8% user,   2.6% system,   0.0% nice,  94.6% idle
Mem:    385460K total,    75460K used,   310000K free,     4008K buffers
Swap:   243104K total,        0K used,   243104K free,    51092K cached

 PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
524 postgres 10 0 1040 1040 840 R 0.7 0.2 0:00 postgresql-star
 517 postfix    9   0   956  956   796 S     0.5  0.2   0:00 qmgr
536 postgres 11 0 0 0 0 Z 0.5 0.0 0:00 pg_ctl <defunct>
 424 root      10   0   920  920   728 R     0.1  0.2   0:00 top
 513 root       9   0  1088 1088   920 S     0.1  0.2   0:00 master

21:43:23 up 2 min,  0 users,  load average: 2.84, 1.29, 0.49
41 processes: 38 sleeping, 2 running, 1 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states:   0.0% user,   1.0% system,   0.0% nice,  99.0% idle
Mem:    385460K total,    77292K used,   308168K free,     4076K buffers
Swap:   243104K total,        0K used,   243104K free,    52384K cached

 PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
 417 cyrus     10   0  1224 1224   928 D     0.1  0.3   0:00 ctl_cyrusdb
   1 root       8   0   476  476   408 S     0.0  0.1   0:04 init
   2 root       9   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00 keventd
3 root 19 19 0 0 0 SWN 0.0 0.0 0:00 ksoftirqd_CPU0
   4 root       9   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00 kswapd

21:43:28 up 2 min,  0 users,  load average: 2.85, 1.32, 0.50
43 processes: 42 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states:   0.6% user,   0.6% system,   0.0% nice,  98.8% idle
Mem:    385460K total,    79892K used,   305568K free,     4228K buffers
Swap:   243104K total,        0K used,   243104K free,    54036K cached

 PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
 417 cyrus     11   0  1224 1224   928 D     0.1  0.3   0:00 ctl_cyrusdb
 424 root      11   0   920  920   728 R     0.1  0.2   0:00 top
 565 root      18   0  1120 1120   916 S     0.1  0.2   0:00 S20samba
   1 root       8   0   476  476   408 S     0.0  0.1   0:04 init
   2 root       9   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00 keventd

21:43:33 up 3 min,  0 users,  load average: 2.87, 1.35, 0.51
46 processes: 45 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states:   3.0% user,   0.6% system,   0.0% nice,  96.4% idle
Mem:    385460K total,    83472K used,   301988K free,     4284K buffers
Swap:   243104K total,        0K used,   243104K free,    56008K cached

 PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
 581 root      14   0  1236 1236  1024 S     1.3  0.3   0:00 sshd
 208 root      12   0  1132 1132   920 S     0.1  0.2   0:00 rc
 424 root       9   0   920  920   728 R     0.1  0.2   0:00 top
 570 root      10   0  2248 2248  1492 S     0.1  0.5   0:00 smbd
   1 root       8   0   476  476   408 S     0.0  0.1   0:04 init
   2 root       9   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00 keventd

21:43:38 up 3 min,  0 users,  load average: 2.80, 1.36, 0.52
46 processes: 45 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states:   0.0% user,   0.8% system,   0.0% nice,  99.2% idle
Mem:    385460K total,    83700K used,   301760K free,     4288K buffers
Swap:   243104K total,        0K used,   243104K free,    56180K cached

 PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
   6 root      10   0     0    0     0 DW    0.1  0.0   0:00 kupdated
 424 root      10   0   924  924   728 R     0.1  0.2   0:00 top
   1 root       8   0   476  476   408 S     0.0  0.1   0:04 init
   2 root       9   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00 keventd

21:43:43 up 3 min,  0 users,  load average: 3.05, 1.43, 0.55
50 processes: 49 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states:   1.6% user,   1.4% system,   0.0% nice,  97.0% idle
Mem:    385460K total,    85916K used,   299544K free,     4344K buffers
Swap:   243104K total,        0K used,   243104K free,    57432K cached

 PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
 594 root      16   0  1964 1964  1904 S     0.4  0.5   0:00 ntpd
 602 root      11   0  1152 1152   932 S     0.4  0.2   0:00 S30squid
 424 root       9   0   924  924   728 R     0.2  0.2   0:00 top
 598 root      13   0  1028 1028   828 S     0.2  0.2   0:00 rpc.nfsd
 600 root      14   0   980  980   832 S     0.2  0.2   0:00 rpc.mountd

21:43:48 up 3 min,  0 users,  load average: 3.21, 1.49, 0.57
54 processes: 53 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states:   0.8% user,   2.0% system,   0.0% nice,  97.2% idle
Mem:    385460K total,    90900K used,   294560K free,     4580K buffers
Swap:   243104K total,        0K used,   243104K free,    58472K cached

 PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
 612 proxy     18   0  4100 4100  1140 D     0.3  1.0   0:00 squid
 424 root       9   0   928  928   728 R     0.1  0.2   0:00 top
 594 root       5   0  1968 1968  1752 S     0.1  0.5   0:00 ntpd
 625 root      19   0   668  668   548 S     0.1  0.1   0:00 cron
 628 root      18   0  1124 1124   840 D     0.1  0.2   0:00 apache-ssl

21:43:53 up 3 min,  0 users,  load average: 3.19, 1.52, 0.59
56 processes: 53 sleeping, 3 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states:   2.8% user,   1.6% system,   0.0% nice,  95.6% idle
Mem:    385460K total,    95944K used,   289516K free,     4680K buffers
Swap:   243104K total,        0K used,   243104K free,    60828K cached

 PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
 612 proxy     10   0  5872 5872  1376 R     1.9  1.5   0:00 squid
 631 root      14   0  3148 3148  2308 S     0.9  0.8   0:00 apache-ssl
 424 root       9   0   928  928   728 R     0.1  0.2   0:00 top
 634 root      15   0   376  376   316 D     0.1  0.0   0:00 iptables

21:43:58 up 3 min,  0 users,  load average: 3.18, 1.54, 0.60
62 processes: 58 sleeping, 4 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states:   1.6% user,   0.6% system,   0.0% nice,  97.8% idle
Mem:    385460K total,    98576K used,   286884K free,     4788K buffers
Swap:   243104K total,        0K used,   243104K free,    62132K cached

 PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
 656 root      19   0   720  720   576 R     0.3  0.1   0:00 xdm

at this time (xdm started) everything's fine, actually a little bit before that...

	erik



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