Re: odd load patterns
On 2016-09-14, Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I wonder if anybody might have some thoughts on this:
>
> Lately, our server has been showing high loading, but top shows that the
> CPU is mostly in wait mode, and iotop shows low disk i/o traffic.
I'm looking here (maybe a little outdated from 2010?):
https://www.tummy.com/articles/isolating-heavy-load/
Maybe an idea or two.
> Usually, the system shows high load when either
>
> a. Someone is indexing our web server (which shows up as CPU load on
> apache).
>
> b. Our list manager is processing a bunch of traffic (most of the load
> comes from spam and virus filtering - which shows up as cpu load on
> amavisd, and clamd, as well as a lot of disk i/o).
>
> The one place I see this effect behavior, if for email clients accessing
> IMAP - I've been seeing timeouts, and exceptionally high delays to load
> an inbox, or move stuff to the trash.
>
> This pattern is new - and there's really nothing that I've changed in
> terms of configuration or loading that I can see.
>
> So... any thoughts? Any diagnostic approaches?
>
> Thanks much,
>
> Miles Fidelman
>
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