High Load

[Martin Hepworth]

Have you got the bigevil.cf loaded in SA? I found this a major hog..

Also do the debug stuff mentioned previously.

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Martin Hepworth
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300


James Gray wrote:
> Pete wrote:
>
>> 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>
>
>
> **SNIPPED**
>
>> Why does your machine use swap when you have plenty of ram free ?
>
>
> I've often seen my *nix boxen swap stuff out to increase cache/buffer
> for stuff that is loaded but very rarely used (like lpd).  I remember
> doing some exercises with this on Solaris when I did my Sun CSE course
> (the idea was performance tuning a server with very high I/O and low
> application memory requirements - think BIG ftp/mail server).  Never
> touched it since then but is is possible to skew the memory management
> to "prefer" buffer/cache in certain circumstances.
>
> Cheers,
>
> James
>
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