Re: Why is my load ave so high now? [Now I know why!]

2009-07-28 Thread Rick Stevens
Kevin J. Cummings wrote: On 07/27/2009 02:26 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: You see a bunch of NFS-related things in a D state and you wonder why it's slow? Yes. Mostly because the machine accessing the NFS mounts has been re-booted a couple of times. If you have processes in an I/O wait (a.k.a.

Re: Why is my load ave so high now? [Now I know why!]

2009-07-28 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
On 07/28/2009 02:00 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: So, I guess my question is what's broken with NFS between my F11 laptop and the F10 server I could see where ls c: might be interpreted by the system as trying to find an NFS machine called c. An NFS mount command is: mount -t nfs

Re: Why is my load ave so high now?

2009-07-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
Kevin J. Cummings wrote: On 07/25/2009 09:58 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote: Wwll two things, one positive and one negative. The r column tells us there are not many processes waiting for run time which we normally associate with a low load average, However your number of interrupts per second (in)

Re: Why is my load ave so high now?

2009-07-27 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
On 07/27/2009 12:04 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: Kevin J. Cummings wrote: Could it be my ivtv0 (PVR-350) board? Its not supposed to be doing anything at the moment! There's nothing plugged into it, and its not configured under MythTV right now (cable went all digital) I'll try removing the

Re: Why is my load ave so high now?

2009-07-27 Thread Rick Stevens
Kevin J. Cummings wrote: On 07/27/2009 12:04 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: Kevin J. Cummings wrote: Could it be my ivtv0 (PVR-350) board? Its not supposed to be doing anything at the moment! There's nothing plugged into it, and its not configured under MythTV right now (cable went all

Re: Why is my load ave so high now? [Now I know why!]

2009-07-27 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
On 07/27/2009 02:26 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: You see a bunch of NFS-related things in a D state and you wonder why it's slow? Yes. Mostly because the machine accessing the NFS mounts has been re-booted a couple of times. If you have processes in an I/O wait (a.k.a. D) state, that'll bog

Re: Why is my load ave so high now?

2009-07-25 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
On 07/25/2009 09:58 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote: Wwll two things, one positive and one negative. The r column tells us there are not many processes waiting for run time which we normally associate with a low load average, However your number of interrupts per second (in) are rather high. Some kernel

Re: Why is my load ave so high now?

2009-07-24 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 22:51 -0400, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: When I was running F8, my server averaged a load ave oof around 4. Now that I'm running F10, and bittorrent is no longer running, in fact, not much of anything besides s...@home (BOINC client running astro_pulse), my load average

Re: Why is my load ave so high now?

2009-07-24 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
On 07/24/2009 10:15 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote: On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 22:51 -0400, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: When I was running F8, my server averaged a load ave oof around 4. Now that I'm running F10, and bittorrent is no longer running, in fact, not much of anything besides s...@home (BOINC

Re: Why is my load ave so high now?

2009-07-24 Thread Andrew Parker
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Kevin J. Cummingscummi...@kjchome.homeip.net wrote: astropulse is the s...@home BOINC client that I run (NICEd to 19). It only uses excess cycles and in the past my load average has never exceed the 3-5 range, except when I was doing real work on the system

Re: Why is my load ave so high now?

2009-07-24 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
On 07/24/2009 02:04 PM, Andrew Parker wrote: 12 is high. is the system responsive? if it is, then this again points to something that has been nice'd (such as seti), in which case its not a problem, except for sendmail - which I would then configure for higher limits. Mostly responsive. In

Re: Why is my load ave so high now?

2009-07-24 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Fri, 2009-07-24 at 11:08 -0400, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: On 07/24/2009 10:15 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote: On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 22:51 -0400, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: When I was running F8, my server averaged a load ave oof around 4. Now that I'm running F10, and bittorrent is no longer

Re: Why is my load ave so high now?

2009-07-24 Thread Bill Davidsen
Kevin J. Cummings wrote: When I was running F8, my server averaged a load ave oof around 4. Now that I'm running F10, and bittorrent is no longer running, in fact, not much of anything besides s...@home (BOINC client running astro_pulse), my load average is up around 11 and frequently

Re: Why is my load ave so high now?

2009-07-24 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
On 07/24/2009 04:41 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: Two suggestions: 1. run vmstat 2 30 to see how many context switches are occurring and the wait time for processes etc. A load time of 11 means there are a large number of processes waiting for cpu time. I think it is inaccurate to say no cpu

Re: Why is my load ave so high now?

2009-07-24 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
On 07/24/2009 04:52 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: You think 91% of your CPU going to astropulse has something to do with it? Try turning viewing of threads, I don't see how you would get that I'll say it again. BOINC is niced to 19. It only runs when there is nothing else to run. It is not

Re: Why is my load ave so high now?

2009-07-24 Thread Andrew Parker
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 2:04 PM, Andrew Parkergbofs...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Kevin J. Cummingscummi...@kjchome.homeip.net wrote: astropulse is the s...@home BOINC client that I run (NICEd to 19). It only uses excess cycles and in the past my load average has never

Re: Why is my load ave so high now?

2009-07-24 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
On 07/24/2009 02:04 PM, Andrew Parker wrote: kill it off, wait a few minutes and see if the load average comes down Kill off boinc and astropulse with kill -9s. After waiting for 10 minutes (or more), the load average dropped to 10.35 -- Kevin J. Cummings kjch...@rcn.com

Why is my load ave so high now?

2009-07-23 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
When I was running F8, my server averaged a load ave oof around 4. Now that I'm running F10, and bittorrent is no longer running, in fact, not much of anything besides s...@home (BOINC client running astro_pulse), my load average is up around 11 and frequently exceeds 12 (and of course when

RE: Why is my load ave so high now?

2009-07-23 Thread Joseph L. Casale
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ COMMAND 3234 root 39 19 50292 46m 2072 R 91.7 2.3 3520:10 astropulse_5.06 I'm open to any WAGs right now as to the cause. FFS, would seti's load not have anything to do with it? :) -- fedora-list mailing list

Re: Why is my load ave so high now?

2009-07-23 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
On 07/23/2009 11:09 PM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ COMMAND 3234 root 39 19 50292 46m 2072 R 91.7 2.3 3520:10 astropulse_5.06 I'm open to any WAGs right now as to the cause. FFS, would seti's load not have anything to do