On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 16:26, Lanman wrote: > I just noticed that 'X' is going crazy on my server. It seems to have > been using the swap partition like it was going out of style, because > the hard drive was working overtime as well. > > In fact, I was unable to log into the server via ssh for almost an hour > because it was too overloaded, and as soon as I did, 'top' showed me this; > > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND > 8379 root 25 0 55936 52 51m R 99.2 0.0 628:08.75 X > > I should point out that the only other thing running was 'rpmq' at here > are it's results from 'top', while everything else was sitting at zero, > that is no CPU or Memory was being used by any other processes. > > 20047 root 34 19 5564 2164 3212 R 0.3 0.4 0:00.01 rpmq > > Can anyone shed some light on this? I had one terminal connected and > waiting to login to the LTSP server at the time, but nothing else was > happening. By looking at my network switch and ADSL modem I could see > that this wasn't due to any type Internet traffic. > > The moment I shut down the terminal, the server returned to normal. > Could X demand that much power from the server for any particular reason > when the server is essentially sitting idle? > > Would this just be some sort of runaway process? I wonder how it would > even start in the first place? ideas? Thoughts?
My experience: a bad NIC or switch connection would be generating a lot of useless load. Happened to me once but that was NIC on the server. Posted this on the list a while back. HTH -- Sudev Barar Learning Linux ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Sybase ASE Linux Express Edition - download now for FREE LinuxWorld Reader's Choice Award Winner for best database on Linux. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=5588&alloc_id=12065&op=click _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
