High Load
Pete
pete at eatathome.com.au
Tue Apr 27 00:12:26 IST 2004
Mike Kercher wrote:
>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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Why does your machine use swap when you have plenty of ram free ?
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