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Re: Need to reboot Debian frequently



On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 12:00:44PM +0800, Pete Kay wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Here is my w,free, top results when my linux server's network become too
> slow again ( it just happened).
> 
> w output:
>  19:41:19 up 1 day, 20:07,  6 users,  load average: 1.46, 1.85, 1.86
> USER     TTY      FROM              LOGIN@   IDLE   JCPU   PCPU WHAT
> anne     :0       -                Thu23   ?xdm?  26:59   0.87s
> x-session-manag
> root     pts/2    :0.0             Thu23   19:28  56.31s 56.29s asterisk
> -vvvvv

yikes, asterisk running as root.

Check /var/log/asterisk/messages (of /var/log/asterisk/full ).

> root     pts/3    :0.0             Fri20   10:18   0.42s  0.42s bash
> root     pts/4    :0.0             Fri21    0.00s  0.80s  0.00s w
> root     pts/5    :0.0             Fri01   24:43   0.00s  0.00s bash
> root     pts/6    :0.0             Fri01   20:02   0.04s  0.04s bash
> 
> free output:
>              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:       1028492    1009284      19208          0       4700     649756
> -/+ buffers/cache:     354828     673664
> Swap:      2650684     123532    2527152
> 
> top output:
> top - 19:41:37 up 1 day, 20:08,  6 users,  load average: 1.33, 1.80, 1.84
> Tasks: 140 total,   3 running, 134 sleeping,   3 stopped,   0 zombie
> Cpu(s): 32.2%us, 29.0%sy,  0.0%ni, 37.1%id,  1.7%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,
> 0.0%st
> Mem:   1028492k total,  1011888k used,    16604k free,     4724k buffers
> Swap:  2650684k total,   123532k used,  2527152k free,   652132k cached
> 
>   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
>  4292 root      25   0 15808 1004  856 R   98  0.1   1441:12 notify.php

What is that notify.php ?

>  6623 anne      15   0  337m 145m  26m S   24 14.5 169:28.67 firefox-bin
>  5574 anne      15   0 67260  17m  11m S    0  1.8   0:08.40 nautilus
>  5550 root      15   0  2228 1168  856 R    0  0.1   0:00.07 top
>     1 root      15   0  1944  504  476 S    0  0.0   0:01.27 init
>     2 root      RT   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.01 migration/0
>     3 root      34  19     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0
>     4 root      RT   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 migration/1
>     5 root      34  19     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 ksoftirqd/1
>     6 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.68 events/0
>     7 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.01 events/1
>     8 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 khelper
>     9 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 kthread
>    13 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.04 kblockd/0
>    14 root      19  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 kblockd/1
>    15 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 kacpid
>   111 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 kseriod
> 
> 
> For the tcpdump, I have to apt-get install it first and then wait under the
> server's network becomes too slow again the next
>  time.
> By the way, when the network becomes slow, the linux server can still run
> fine without any slowness.  This Linux box is behind a router which has two
> computers ( one linux and one vista ) under its network.
> 
> How could I solve this problem?  What worries me is that I am consistently
> having to reboot 2 - 3 days which means my server is still not ready for
> production.

The network is always "slow". Maybe you have some excessive upstream
traffic. Knowing what that traffic is cal help identifying the exact
fault.

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