High Load

Kevin Miller Kevin_Miller at CI.JUNEAU.AK.US
Mon Apr 26 21:59:22 IST 2004


Are you on 4.28-?  I was seeing large loads until I went to 4.29-7.

HTH...

...Kevin
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Mike Kercher [mailto:mike at CAMAROSS.NET]
>Sent: Monday, April 26, 2004 12:52 PM
>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Subject: High Load
>
>
>I'm seeing a HUGE load on my system and I can't figure out why.
>
> 14:47:00  up 46 min,  3 users,  load average: 13.43, 14.25, 10.73
>102 processes: 87 sleeping, 12 running, 3 zombie, 0 stopped
>CPU states:  75.6% user  24.3% system   0.0% nice   0.0%
>iowait   0.0% idle
>Mem:  1022796k av,  915824k used,  106972k free,       0k
>shrd,   43448k
>buff
>                    522344k actv,  197376k in_d,  127288k in_c
>Swap: 2048276k av,   31672k used, 2016604k free
>  441600k
>cached
>
>  PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME
>CPU COMMAND
> 9837 root      15   0 14808  952   820 S    68.5  0.0   3:25   0
>MailScanner
>15534 hbaldera  23   0     0    0     0 Z     0.7  0.0   0:00
> 0 cucipop
><defunct>
> 3095 root      15   0   236  204   156 R     0.3  0.0   0:01
> 0 syslogd
> 3195 named     25   0  6608 6412  1348 S     0.3  0.6   0:20   0 named
> 7400 root      15   0  1008 1008   688 R     0.3  0.0   0:04   0 top
>15533 c.wilson  21   0     0    0     0 Z     0.3  0.0   0:00
> 0 cucipop
><defunct>
>15538 root      20   0  2708 2404  1868 R     0.3  0.2   0:00
> 0 sendmail
>   15 root      15   0     0    0     0 SW    0.1  0.0   0:01
> 0 kjournald
>13900 root      20   0   592  592   476 S     0.1  0.0   0:00
> 0 cucipop
>15495 root      17   0  3124 3000  2004 R     0.1  0.2   0:00
> 0 sendmail
>15513 root      20   0  3160 3156  2264 D     0.1  0.3   0:00
> 0 sendmail
>    1 root      17   0   156  128   100 S     0.0  0.0   0:05   0 init
>    2 root      15   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00
> 0 keventd
>    3 root      15   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00   0 kapmd
>    4 root      34  19     0    0     0 SWN   0.0  0.0   0:00   0
>ksoftirqd_CPU0
>    9 root      25   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00
> 0 bdflush
>    5 root      15   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00
> 0 kswapd
>    6 root      15   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00
> 0 kscand/DMA
>    7 root      16   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:03   0
>kscand/Normal
>    8 root      15   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:02   0
>kscand/HighMem
>   10 root      15   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00
> 0 kupdated
>   11 root      25   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00   0
>mdrecoveryd
>   73 root      25   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00   0 khubd
> 2808 root      19   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00
> 0 kjournald
> 3045 root      15   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00   0 eth0
> 3099 root      23   0    52    4     0 S     0.0  0.0   0:00   0 klogd
> 3209 root      15   0   288   64    48 S     0.0  0.0   0:00   0 sshd
> 3223 root      15   0   448  304   296 S     0.0  0.0   0:00
> 0 xinetd
> 3228 root      15   0   888  600   516 S     0.0  0.0   0:00   0 bash
> 3229 root      15   0   932  644   560 S     0.0  0.0   0:00   0 bash
> 3313 root      25   0   160    4     0 S     0.0  0.0   0:00   0
>safe_mysqld
> 3344 mysql     16   0  2564 2200  1220 S     0.0  0.2   0:19
> 0 mysqld
> 3406 nobody    15   0   568  124    68 S     0.0  0.0   0:00
> 0 proftpd
> 3447 root      15   0  5080 1412   884 S     0.0  0.1   0:10   0 httpd
> 3472 smmsp     15   0  1412 1380   772 S     0.0  0.1   0:02   0
>milter-sender
> 3491 root      15   0   436  436   364 S     0.0  0.0   0:00   0 crond
> 3508 root      15   0  3136 3116   968 S     0.0  0.3   0:00
> 0 poprelayd
>
>This is a P4 2.0Ghz with a gig of RAM.  My CPU hogs seem to be MS and
>cucipop.  My load is getting pushed up to 19+ and sendmail
>stops accepting
>connections at that point.  Anyone else having any similar
>issues?  Pointers
>gladly accepted!
>
>Mike
>
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