High Load
Pete
pete at eatathome.com.au
Tue Apr 27 00:50:04 IST 2004
Mike Kercher wrote:
>I ended up turning Spam Checks off for some of the domains that I'd rather
>not even be hosting. Maybe this will be the spur they needed to move along
>:)
>
>After doing so, load is back down below 1.00 After upgrading to the latest
>stable, it did reach over 100 and my box was crawling!!!
>
>Mike
>
>
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: MailScanner mailing list
>>[mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Daniel Kleinsinger
>>Sent: Monday, April 26, 2004 5:23 PM
>>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>>Subject: Re: High Load
>>
>>Have you tried Debug Mode?
>>Debug = yes
>>Debug SpamAssassin = yes
>>and see what it logs. Check the archives for more detailed
>>Debug instructions.
>>
>>Stopping MailScanner makes the load go down immediately?
>>
>>Daniel
>>
>>Mike Kercher wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>Welp...I just upgraded to the latest stable and load is at 22 now!
>>>
>>>Mike
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>>From: MailScanner mailing list
>>>>[mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Kevin Miller
>>>>Sent: Monday, April 26, 2004 4:05 PM
>>>>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>>>>Subject: Re: High Load
>>>>
>>>>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
>>>>--
>>>>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 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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Wass that load just while the box caufght up with the amil queued while
offline for an upgrade? How did it go once it had all evened out?
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