High Load

Kevin Miller Kevin_Miller at CI.JUNEAU.AK.US
Mon Apr 26 22:05:16 IST 2004


I think I skipped that one.  Feel like upgrading to the newest stable?  Not
sure when the performance issue was wrestled to the ground...

...Kevin
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Kevin Miller                Registered Linux User No: 307357
CBJ MIS Dept.               Network Systems Administrator, Mail
Administrator
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Mike Kercher [mailto:mike at CAMAROSS.NET]
>Sent: Monday, April 26, 2004 1:02 PM
>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Subject: Re: High Load
>
>
>I am 4.29.3-1
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: MailScanner mailing list
>> [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Kevin Miller
>> Sent: Monday, April 26, 2004 3:59 PM
>> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>> Subject: Re: High Load
>>
>> Are you on 4.28-?  I was seeing large loads until I went to 4.29-7.
>>
>> HTH...
>>
>> ...Kevin
>> --
>> Kevin Miller                Registered Linux User No: 307357
>> CBJ MIS Dept.               Network Systems Administrator, Mail
>> Administrator
>> 155 South Seward Street     ph: (907) 586-0242
>> Juneau, Alaska 99801        fax: (907 586-4500
>>
>>
>> >-----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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