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Today's Topics:
1. Re: Throttling issues INN (Grant Taylor)
2. Re: Throttling issues INN (Russ Allbery)
3. RE: Throttling issues INN (Avon)
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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2018 11:21:23 -0600
From: Grant Taylor <[email protected]>
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Subject: Re: Throttling issues INN
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On 06/16/2018 01:57 AM, Avon wrote:
> Mode: throttled (loadav [innwatch:hiload] 2366 gt 2000)
I would be concerned if that load average directly translates to the
load average reported by uptime or top. (I don't know if it's a
multiple or even related.)
I personally like to see load averages not much higher than the number
of CPUs (cores) a machine has. There is wiggle room for some overage,
but never more than double the number of CPUs.
Any time I've seen load average that high, particularly on Linux, it was
an indication that some other part of the system was really Really
REALLY hurting. Once I solved that problem, the load average dropped
and everything was okay.
Linux is notorious for Disk I/O (wait) driving the load average numbers up.
--
Grant. . . .
unix || die
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Message: 2
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2018 16:07:50 -0700
From: Russ Allbery <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Throttling issues INN
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Grant Taylor <[email protected]> writes:
> On 06/16/2018 01:57 AM, Avon wrote:
>> Mode: throttled (loadav [innwatch:hiload] 2366 gt 2000)
> I would be concerned if that load average directly translates to the
> load average reported by uptime or top. (I don't know if it's a
> multiple or even related.)
It's uptime with the period deleted, so roughly 100x times the reported
uptime number. So this is a 23.66 load average, which means that about 24
processes are trying to run simultaneously.
My guess given that / ran out of space is that something on the system
(maybe multiple things) is in some kind of crash and restart loop and
hammering the system.
--
Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
Please send questions to the list rather than mailing me directly.
<http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/faqs/questions.html> explains why.
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Message: 3
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2018 12:02:48 +1200
From: "Avon" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: RE: Throttling issues INN
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Thanks for the feedback etc. guys.
Another reply direct to me suggested I block a few systems that may causing
the load to occur by
stating an IP range that could halt abusers of the system
So I'm inferring it the slowdown and hassles may lie due to someone just
sucking down as many
newsgroup posts as they can well and above the normal levels I usually see -
would that cause it?
Check the last 5-7 days of my logs and you will see someone(s) are pulling
down huge amounts
of posts vs. the norm.
http://news.bbs.nz/stats/innreport.html
e.g.
http://news.bbs.nz/stats/news-notice.2018.06.12-23.58.05.html#nnrpd_dom_grou
ps
Best. Paul
> -----Original Message-----
> From: inn-workers <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Russ
> Allbery
> Sent: Sunday, 17 June 2018 11:08 AM
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> Subject: Re: Throttling issues INN
>
> Grant Taylor <[email protected]> writes:
> > On 06/16/2018 01:57 AM, Avon wrote:
>
> >> Mode: throttled (loadav [innwatch:hiload] 2366 gt 2000)
>
> > I would be concerned if that load average directly translates to the
> > load average reported by uptime or top. (I don't know if it's a
> > multiple or even related.)
>
> It's uptime with the period deleted, so roughly 100x times the reported
> uptime number. So this is a 23.66 load average, which means that about 24
> processes are trying to run simultaneously.
>
> My guess given that / ran out of space is that something on the system
> (maybe multiple things) is in some kind of crash and restart loop and
> hammering the system.
>
> --
> Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
>
> Please send questions to the list rather than mailing me directly.
> <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/faqs/questions.html> explains why.
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