You are way short of memory. 58 Megs RAM in use and 250+ swap on disk! The python processes aren't sharing much memory. They are quite long-lived. Perhaps they have a memory leak?
Cheers, Carl. On 03/03/06, Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 03 Mar 2006 13:09:33 +1300 > Nick Rout wrote: > > > I have a machine that is a pIII 400 MHz with 64M RAM. > > > > It is not doing much other than running torrentflux, a web based > > frontend to the bittornado bittorrent client, which also involves mysql > > and apache. > > > > a lot of the time it ticks along at a load average of 0.2-0.5. However > > sometimes it shoots up to 5, 10, even more, for a while and after a > > while shrinks back down to the stable level. During this time it becomes > > pretty unresponsive. It is annoying me. > > > > When the LA is high top also shows that the machine is spending a lot of > > time in the "wait" state. I assume this is an IO related problem, > > probably disk related. swap is also in use most of the time. DMA is on, > > but i don't know how well that is handled by the relatively old chipset > > in the box. top doesn't show any processes using inordinate cpu time or > > even memory (although swap is clearly in use). > > > > Is this "wait" state and high LA related to lack of ram and constant > > swapping? the disk doesn't sound like its thrashing, but its hard to > > tell when its not the only computer in the room. > > > > Or should I look elsewhere? Is the IO problem related to network issues > > with a lot of connections on the go? (bittorrent is like that!) > > To add to that here is a snap of top: > > top - 02:12:25 up 2 days, 5:19, 2 users, load average: 10.35, 10.29, 10.27 > Tasks: 104 total, 6 running, 98 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie > Cpu(s): 5.2% us, 1.5% sy, 0.0% ni, 0.0% id, 90.7% wa, 1.9% hi, 0.6% si > Mem: 60092k total, 58644k used, 1448k free, 172k buffers > Swap: 489972k total, 261516k used, 228456k free, 2596k cached > > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND > 13751 apache 17 0 20984 5184 752 R 1.7 8.6 15:24.28 python > 22334 apache 16 0 17052 6044 772 D 1.7 10.1 1:20.82 python > 20734 root 17 0 2004 608 416 R 1.3 1.0 2:55.07 top > 21305 apache 18 0 31632 6636 748 R 0.7 11.0 8:54.74 python > 23034 nick 16 0 2004 824 620 R 0.7 1.4 0:00.26 top > 5984 apache 17 0 70408 5436 748 R 0.3 9.0 31:52.97 python > > thats sorted by cpu use, sorted by memory use the bottom part looks like this: > > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND > 21305 apache 18 0 31632 7532 736 R 1.7 12.5 8:55.61 python > 21311 apache 16 0 31632 7532 736 S 0.0 12.5 0:00.09 python > 22334 apache 16 0 17052 6108 772 D 5.0 10.2 1:21.98 python > 22347 apache 16 0 17052 6108 772 S 0.3 10.2 0:00.04 python > 13751 apache 16 0 20984 5732 740 D 0.7 9.5 15:24.84 python > 13755 apache 16 0 20984 5732 740 S 0.0 9.5 0:00.51 python > 9350 apache 18 0 31576 5668 768 D 5.3 9.4 47:36.67 python > 9374 apache 16 0 31576 5668 768 S 0.0 9.4 0:00.60 python > 18056 apache 16 0 22280 4908 748 D 1.7 8.2 19:45.06 python > 18065 apache 16 0 22280 4908 748 S 0.0 8.2 0:00.22 python > 5984 apache 16 0 70408 4612 892 D 0.3 7.7 31:53.33 python > 5995 apache 16 0 70408 4612 892 S 0.0 7.7 0:00.74 python > 5728 apache 17 0 60784 4528 760 R 0.3 7.5 77:26.76 python > 5737 apache 16 0 60784 4528 760 S 0.0 7.5 0:00.49 python > > > (bittornado is a python program) > > > > > > -- > > Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- > Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >
