Re: [CentOS] High load average, low CPU utilization

2014-03-28 Thread John R. Dennison
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 09:30:17AM -0500, Matt Garman wrote: How can the loadavg shoot up (from ~1 to ~20) without a corresponding uptick in number of tasks? loadavg is based on number of processes vying for cpu time on the runq; the number of over-all processes on the system is not really

Re: [CentOS] High load average, low CPU utilization

2014-03-28 Thread Matt Garman
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 9:01 AM, Mr Queue li...@mrqueue.com wrote: On Thu, 27 Mar 2014 17:20:22 -0500 Matt Garman matthew.gar...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone seen anything like this? Any thoughts or ideas? Post some data.. This public facing? Are you getting sprayed down by packets? Array?

Re: [CentOS] High load average, low CPU utilization

2014-03-28 Thread Matt Garman
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 10:30 AM, John Doe jd...@yahoo.com wrote: Any USB device? Each time I access USB disks, load goes through the roof. Nope, it's a rack server in a secure remote location, with no peripherals at all attached. Only attached cables are power and network.

Re: [CentOS] High load average, low CPU utilization

2014-03-28 Thread John Doe
From: Matt Garman matthew.gar...@gmail.com I did a little research on the loadavg number, and my understanding is that it's simply a function of the number of tasks on the system.  (There's some fancy stuff thrown in for exponential decay and curve smoothing and all that, but it's still

Re: [CentOS] High load average, low CPU utilization

2014-03-28 Thread Matt Garman
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 9:37 AM, John R. Dennison j...@gerdesas.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 09:30:17AM -0500, Matt Garman wrote: How can the loadavg shoot up (from ~1 to ~20) without a corresponding uptick in number of tasks? loadavg is based on number of processes vying for cpu

Re: [CentOS] High load average, low CPU utilization

2014-03-28 Thread Leon Fauster
Am 28.03.2014 um 15:30 schrieb Matt Garman matthew.gar...@gmail.com: On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 9:01 AM, Mr Queue li...@mrqueue.com wrote: On Thu, 27 Mar 2014 17:20:22 -0500 Matt Garman matthew.gar...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone seen anything like this? Any thoughts or ideas? Post some data..

Re: [CentOS] High load average, low CPU utilization

2014-03-28 Thread Mr Queue
On Thu, 27 Mar 2014 17:20:22 -0500 Matt Garman matthew.gar...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone seen anything like this? Any thoughts or ideas? Post some data.. This public facing? Are you getting sprayed down by packets? Array? Soft/hard? Someone have screens laying around? Write a trap to catch a

Re: [CentOS] High load average, low CPU utilization

2014-03-28 Thread Mr Queue
On Thu, 27 Mar 2014 17:20:22 -0500 Matt Garman matthew.gar...@gmail.com wrote: Any thoughts or ideas? Start digging into your array. Perhaps you're starting to lose a drive and it's running daily integrity checks or something. ie, dropping in and out of the array or the like..

[CentOS] High load average, low CPU utilization

2014-03-27 Thread Matt Garman
I have a dual Xeon 5130 (four total CPUs) server running CentOS 5.7. Approximately every 17 hours, the load on this server slowly creeps up until it hits 20, then slowly goes back down. The most recent example started around 2:00am this morning. Outside of these weird times, the load never

Re: [CentOS] High load average, low CPU utilization

2014-03-27 Thread Miranda Hawarden-Ogata
On 2014/03/27 12:20, Matt Garman wrote: Anyone seen anything like this? Any thoughts or ideas? Thanks, Matt Something of a shot in the dark, but when we had a server with a high load average where nothing obvious was causing it, it turned out to be multiple df cmds hanging on a stale nfs

Re: [CentOS] High load average, low CPU utilization

2014-03-27 Thread Keith Keller
On 2014-03-27, Miranda Hawarden-Ogata hawar...@ifa.hawaii.edu wrote: On 2014/03/27 12:20, Matt Garman wrote: Anyone seen anything like this? Any thoughts or ideas? Something of a shot in the dark, but when we had a server with a high load average where nothing obvious was causing it, it