Here is what I am seeing,sorry for the big print out.
top
top - 04:36:52 up 7 days, 1:05, 1 user, load average: 73.88, 62.88, 91.72
Tasks: 207 total, 1 running, 206 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 8.0%us, 0.8%sy, 0.0%ni, 84.4%id, 6.3%wa, 0.2%hi, 0.3%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 2062096k total, 1834196k used, 227900k free, 137360k buffers
Swap: 8193140k total, 88k used, 8193052k free, 1157808k cached
18833 apache 15 0 29240 11m 3084 S 4 0.6 0:18.77 httpd
18895 apache 15 0 29364 11m 3092 S 2 0.6 0:00.46 httpd
18831 apache 15 0 29364 11m 3216 S 2 0.6 0:02.86 httpd
18872 apache 15 0 29124 12m 4052 S 2 0.6 0:01.90 httpd
18867 apache 15 0 29316 12m 3872 D 1 0.6 0:01.51 httpd
18893 apache 15 0 28896 11m 3028 S 1 0.6 0:00.38 httpd
18884 apache 15 0 29332 11m 3088 S 1 0.6 0:00.90 httpd
18861 apache 15 0 29308 11m 3116 D 1 0.6 0:01.81 httpd
18888 apache 15 0 28904 11m 3084 S 1 0.6 0:00.59 httpd
ps -aux | grep httpd
apache 17255 0.0 0.5 29496 12072 ? D 04:27 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache 17261 0.0 0.5 28840 11296 ? D 04:27 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache 17267 0.2 0.5 29176 11860 ? D 04:27 0:01 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache 17268 0.7 0.6 29552 12868 ? D 04:27 0:04 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache 17456 1.1 0.6 29728 13168 ? S 04:27 0:06 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache 17890 0.5 0.6 29928 12588 ? D 04:28 0:02 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache 17893 0.0 0.5 29032 11548 ? D 04:28 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache 17895 0.0 0.5 29184 11716 ? D 04:28 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache 17896 0.0 0.5 28740 11256 ? D 04:28 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache 17897 0.0 0.5 28912 11452 ? D 04:28 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache 17904 0.3 0.5 29288 11876 ? D 04:28 0:01 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache 17913 0.5 0.5 29316 11892 ? D 04:29 0:02 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache 17923 0.1 0.5 29364 12052 ? D 04:29 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache 17925 0.8 0.6 29336 12792 ? D 04:29 0:04 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache 17935 0.2 0.6 29100 12664 ? D 04:29 0:01 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache 17940 0.2 0.5 29328 11944 ? D 04:29 0:01 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache 17954 0.2 0.5 29332 11904 ? D 04:30 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache 17956 0.0 0.5 28400 10760 ? D 04:30 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache 17957 0.3 0.5 29700 12240 ? D 04:30 0:01 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache 17960 0.6 0.6 29416 12668 ? D 04:30 0:02 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache 17961 0.0 0.5 28148 10608 ? D 04:30 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache 17962 0.1 0.5 29120 11700 ? D 04:30 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache 17964 0.0 0.5 28136 10424 ? D 04:30 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache 17968 0.0 0.5 29184 11744 ? D 04:30 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache 17970 1.8 0.6 29292 12704 ? S 04:30 0:07 /usr/sbin/httpd
iostat -x 1
avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle
2.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 98.00
Device: rrqm/s wrqm/s r/s w/s rsec/s wsec/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz
await svctm %util
sda 0.00 11.00 0.00 6.00 0.00 136.00 22.67 0.00
0.50 0.17 0.10
dm-0 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
0.00 0.00 0.00
dm-1 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
0.00 0.00 0.00
dm-2 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
0.00 0.00 0.00
dm-3 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
0.00 0.00 0.00
dm-4 0.00 0.00 0.00 17.00 0.00 136.00 8.00 0.01
0.29 0.06 0.10
fd0 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
0.00 0.00 0.00
avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle
5.97 0.00 1.49 0.00 0.00 92.54
Device: rrqm/s wrqm/s r/s w/s rsec/s wsec/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz
await svctm %util
sda 0.00 8.00 0.00 2.00 0.00 80.00 40.00 0.00
0.50 0.50 0.10
dm-0 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
0.00 0.00 0.00
dm-1 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
0.00 0.00 0.00
dm-2 0.00 0.00 0.00 10.00 0.00 80.00 8.00 0.01
0.90 0.10 0.10
dm-3 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
0.00 0.00 0.00
dm-4 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
0.00 0.00 0.00
fd0 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
0.00 0.00 0.00
vmstat
procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system--
-----cpu------
r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa st
0 0 88 189244 137948 1172700 0 0 0 4 30 30 1 0 99 0 0
The web root is located on an NFS share. I restarted NFS on this box just to
make sure. When I restart httpd and the load average drops to around 10 or 11
I can browse the webpage just fine. It is when it gets to around 150 that I
can't.
Any help is appreciated
Adam
----- Ryan Simpkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, March 28, 2007 09:30, adam fisher wrote:
> > I just brought up a new web server on fedora core. The load aver
> appears to grow to
> > the size of the MaxClients which is 150. If I lower it then the load
> average lowers.
> >
> > When I run ps -aux | grep httpd, I have almost every httpd process
> in
> > uninterruptible sleep. Are these persistent connections that just
> aren't being
> > closed or is it something else?
> >
> > Never seen this before,
> > Adam
>
> /proc/loadavg
> The load average numbers give the number of jobs in
> the run queue
> (state R) or waiting for disk I/O (state D) averaged over 1, 5, and
> 15
> minutes. They are the same as the load average numbers given by
> uptime(1) and other programs.
>
> If top doesn't show high CPU utilization, run iostat -x 1 for a bit
> and see what
> your disk is doing. vmstat is also helpful here.
>
> -Ryan
>
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