> Is there any logging that goes on in a 'out of the box' SuSE 7.0 linux > distribution that would show what task was using how much CPU > at a given > hour? I'm seeing a spike around midnight to 2 AM of about > 16.9% of the CPU > of the whole mainframe going to the linux partition Normal > use is between > 0.5% and 3.3% (it's a test machine). I am running the > Webalizer reports, > but those should not take 2-3 hours to complete, should they?
Check the root crontab for automated tasks that are doing things like log pruning, etc. That's the usual cause of spikes like this in the middle of the night. > Also does anyone know if the 2.4.x releases of SuSE and > RedHat, native in > an LPAR can IPL from a PAV enabled volume in a shark box? I > had encountered > a problem in SuSE 7.0 2.2.x kernal that I could not IPL from > a PAV volume > in LPAR mode. Still can't. -- db
