Re: Weird behaviour on System under high load

2023-05-28 Thread David Christensen
On 5/28/23 03:09, Christian wrote: Ursprüngliche Nachricht Von: David Christensen An: debian-user@lists.debian.org Betreff: Re: Weird behaviour on System under high load Datum: Sat, 27 May 2023 16:30:05 -0700 On 5/27/23 15:28, Christian wrote: New day, new tests. Got

Re: Weird behaviour on System under high load

2023-05-28 Thread Christian
> Ursprüngliche Nachricht > Von: David Christensen > An: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Betreff: Re: Weird behaviour on System under high load > Datum: Sat, 27 May 2023 16:30:05 -0700 > > On 5/27/23 15:28, Christian wrote: > > > New day, new tes

Re: Weird behaviour on System under high load

2023-05-27 Thread David Christensen
On 5/27/23 15:28, Christian wrote: New day, new tests. Got a crash again, however with the message "AHCI controller unavailable". Figured that is the SATA drives not being plugged in the right order. Corrected that and a 3:30h stress test went so far without any issues besides this old bug

Re: Weird behaviour on System under high load

2023-05-27 Thread Christian
> Ursprüngliche Nachricht > Von: David Christensen > An: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Betreff: Re: Weird behaviour on System under high load > Datum: Fri, 26 May 2023 18:22:17 -0700 > > On 5/26/23 16:08, Christian wrote: > > > Good and bad

Re: Weird behaviour on System under high load

2023-05-26 Thread David Christensen
On 5/26/23 16:08, Christian wrote: Good and bad things: I started to test different setups (always with full 12 core stress test). Boot from USB liveCD (only stress and s-tui installed): - All disks disconnected, other than M2. Standard BIOS - All disks disconnected, other than M2. Proper

Re: Weird behaviour on System under high load

2023-05-26 Thread Christian
> Ursprüngliche Nachricht > Von: David Christensen > An: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Betreff: Re: Weird behaviour on System under high load > Datum: Sun, 21 May 2023 15:04:44 -0700 > > > > > > > What stresstest are you using? >

Re: Weird behaviour on System under high load

2023-05-21 Thread David Christensen
On 5/21/23 14:46, Christian wrote: David Christensen Sun, 21 May 2023 14:22:22 -0700 On 5/21/23 06:31, Christian wrote: David Christensen Sun, 21 May 2023 03:11:43 -0700 David Christensen Sat, 20 May 2023 18:00:48 -0700 Heat sinks, heat pipes, water blocks, radiators, fans, ducts, etc..

Re: Weird behaviour on System under high load

2023-05-21 Thread Christian
> Ursprüngliche Nachricht > Von: David Christensen > An: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Betreff: Re: Weird behaviour on System under high load > Datum: Sun, 21 May 2023 14:22:22 -0700 > > On 5/21/23 06:31, Christian wrote: > > David Christensen Sun,

Re: Weird behaviour on System under high load

2023-05-21 Thread David Christensen
On 5/21/23 06:31, Christian wrote: David Christensen Sun, 21 May 2023 03:11:43 -0700 >>> David Christensen Sat, 20 May 2023 18:00:48 -0700 Please use inline posting style and proper indentation. Phew... will be quite hard to read. But here you go. It is not hard when you delete the

Re: Weird behaviour on System under high load

2023-05-21 Thread David Christensen
On 5/21/23 06:26, songbird wrote: David Christensen wrote: ... Measuring actual power supply output and system usage would involve building or buying suitable test equipment. The cost would be non-trivial. ... it depends upon how accurate you want to be and how much power. for my

Re: Weird behaviour on System under high load

2023-05-21 Thread songbird
David Christensen wrote: ... > Measuring actual power supply output and system usage would involve > building or buying suitable test equipment. The cost would be non-trivial. ... it depends upon how accurate you want to be and how much power. for my system it was a simple matter of

Re: Weird behaviour on System under high load

2023-05-21 Thread Christian
> Ursprüngliche Nachricht > Von: David Christensen > An: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Betreff: Re: Weird behaviour on System under high load > Datum: Sun, 21 May 2023 03:11:43 -0700 > > On 5/21/23 01:14, Christian wrote: > > > >

Re: Weird behaviour on System under high load

2023-05-21 Thread David Christensen
On 5/21/23 01:14, Christian wrote: Ursprüngliche Nachricht Von: David Christensen An: debian-user@lists.debian.org Betreff: Re: Weird behaviour on System under high load Datum: Sat, 20 May 2023 18:00:48 -0700 On 5/20/23 14:46, Christian wrote: Hi there, I am having trouble

Re: Weird behaviour on System under high load

2023-05-21 Thread Christian
unmounted. So would guess this would be a test to see if it is about power? Ursprüngliche Nachricht Von: David Christensen An: debian-user@lists.debian.org Betreff: Re: Weird behaviour on System under high load Datum: Sat, 20 May 2023 18:00:48 -0700 On 5/20/23 14:46, Christian

Re: Weird behaviour on System under high load

2023-05-20 Thread David Christensen
On 5/20/23 14:46, Christian wrote: Hi there, I am having trouble with a new build system. It works normal and stable until I put extreme stress on it, e.g. using all 12 cores with stress tool. System will suddenly loose network connection and become unresponsive. Only a reset works. I am not

Weird behaviour on System under high load

2023-05-20 Thread Christian
Hi there, I am having trouble with a new build system. It works normal and stable until I put extreme stress on it, e.g. using all 12 cores with stress tool. System will suddenly loose network connection and become unresponsive. Only a reset works. I am not sure what is going on, but it is

Re: NFS on Raspberry Pi high load

2015-06-21 Thread Sven Hartge
Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: I don't know about the new Raspberry quad core. Does it have the same limited usb chip as the original? It does. But because the CPU is more powerful (and you have 4 cores) you can squeeze about 95MBit/s out of it. Right now I am dd'ing a 600MB file over NFS

Re: NFS on Raspberry Pi high load

2015-06-21 Thread Bob Proulx
Sven Hartge wrote: Reco wrote: Sven Hartge wrote: Maybe the USB hardware implementation is better in the N900? The one in the Pi is quite bad and finicky. I am coming to this discussion late but I had to confirm that the USB chip in the Raspberry Pi is very limiting. It has a maximum

Re: NFS on Raspberry Pi high load

2015-06-19 Thread Sven Hartge
Reco recovery...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, 19 Jun 2015 20:38:12 +0200 Sven Hartge s...@svenhartge.de wrote: Maybe the USB hardware implementation is better in the N900? The one in the Pi is quite bad and finicky. I happen to have Pi too. Not that I need an NFS server on it, NFS client is

Re: NFS on Raspberry Pi high load

2015-06-19 Thread Michael Biebl
, but a maximum transfer rate of about 35MBit/s is normal. The load is so high because USB is very CPU-intensive. If you were to use the on-board Ethernet, you would not see such a high load. The pi has no on-board ethernet. The ethernet port is attached via USB. -- Why is it that all

Re: NFS on Raspberry Pi high load

2015-06-19 Thread Reco
may be able to transfer up to 45MBit/s, but a maximum transfer rate of about 35MBit/s is normal. The load is so high because USB is very CPU-intensive. If you were to use the on-board Ethernet, you would not see such a high load. What? Are you serious? I have this Nokia N900 lying behind me

Re: NFS on Raspberry Pi high load

2015-06-19 Thread Sven Hartge
basti black.flederm...@arcor.de wrote: iotop show me a read speed around 3 MB/s, there is a Class 10 UHS card (10-15 MB/s read, 9-5 MB/s write I guess). More than 3MByte/s is not really achievable with a Pi-1, because the CPU is very weak and the Ethernet-Chip is attached via USB. Under the

Re: NFS on Raspberry Pi high load

2015-06-19 Thread Petter Adsen
35MBit/s is normal. The load is so high because USB is very CPU-intensive. If you were to use the on-board Ethernet, you would not see such a high load. Petter -- I'm ionized Are you sure? I'm positive. pgpb9DSiuayKO.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

NFS on Raspberry Pi high load

2015-06-19 Thread basti
Hello, perhaps thats a bit OT but I can't found a Rasbian or RaspberryPi related mailinglist. Per default nfs starts with 8 servers root@raspberrypi:~# head -n 2 /etc/default/nfs-kernel-server # Number of servers to start up RPCNFSDCOUNT=8 So I try to transfer a 3GB file from the raspberry to

Re: NFS on Raspberry Pi high load

2015-06-19 Thread basti
The Problem is not the speed of 3 MB/s it's the load of 12 and more. On 19.06.2015 14:03, Sven Hartge wrote: basti black.flederm...@arcor.de wrote: iotop show me a read speed around 3 MB/s, there is a Class 10 UHS card (10-15 MB/s read, 9-5 MB/s write I guess). More than 3MByte/s is not

Re: NFS on Raspberry Pi high load

2015-06-19 Thread Reco
Ethernet, you would not see such a high load. What? Are you serious? I have this Nokia N900 lying behind me which is connected by IP-via-USB (aka usbnet aka g_ether) and with the order of magnitude slower ARM CPU it reliably shows 40mbps with no noticeable load. Maybe the USB hardware

Re: NFS on Raspberry Pi high load

2015-06-19 Thread Sven Hartge
Reco recovery...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, 19 Jun 2015 20:38:12 +0200 Sven Hartge s...@svenhartge.de wrote: What I suspect was happening with your NFS server is the multiple knfsd threads in D-state (i.e. blocked by iowait by slof MMC card) *plus* this USB Ethernet interrupts. I'd start with

Re: NFS on Raspberry Pi high load

2015-06-19 Thread Sven Hartge
rate of about 35MBit/s is normal. The Problem is not the speed of 3 MB/s it's the load of 12 and more. The load is so high because USB is very CPU-intensive. If you were to use the on-board Ethernet, you would not see such a high load. What? Are you serious? I have this Nokia N900 lying

Re: Re: MySQL slow and high load with Debian Wheezy (was: [whole mail text])

2013-09-07 Thread Daniel Enright
Found this thread searching for a solution to my problem (which sounds similar). My solution was barrier=0 in /etc/fstab see https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ext4 Uh, specifically my problem was that loading large mysql files took forever and would often end with mysql losing the

Re: High Load/Interrupts on Wheezy

2013-07-03 Thread Darac Marjal
part, is that despite the high load, my wheezy boxes are actually performing quite well, and are outperforming my squeeze boxes by 2-3 ms. Never the less, the high load is giving us cause for concern and is stopping us from migrating completely, and we're wondering if anybody else is seeing

Re: High Load/Interrupts on Wheezy

2013-07-03 Thread Will Platnick
have a load of over 3 and are not staying up during our peak time, whereas our squeeze boxes have a load of less than 1.  The interesting part, is that despite the high load, my wheezy boxes are actually performing quite well, and are outperforming my squeeze boxes by 2-3 ms. Never the less

Re: High Load/Interrupts on Wheezy

2013-07-03 Thread Will Platnick
Something else I just noticed now that I'm on a screen high enough to show all of /proc/interrupts on one line:Non-maskable interrupts are happening on Wheezy whereas they didn't on Squeeze. Additionally, it seems Non-maskable interrupts and Performance monitoring are the same value all the time.

Re: High Load/Interrupts on Wheezy

2013-07-03 Thread Will Platnick
More troubleshooting steps: Built and installed latest 3.10 kernel, no change in interrupts Built and installed latest 2.6.32 kernel, and I am back to Squeeze level loads and no high timer, rescheduling, non-maskable or performance interrupts are present. So, does anybody have any idea what

Re: High Load/Interrupts on Wheezy

2013-07-03 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 04/07/13 00:30, Will Platnick wrote: More troubleshooting steps: Built and installed latest 3.10 kernel, no change in interrupts Built and installed latest 2.6.32 kernel, and I am back to Squeeze level loads and no high timer, rescheduling, non-maskable or performance interrupts are

Re: High Load/Interrupts on Wheezy

2013-07-03 Thread David Mckisick
Same issue here exactly and have noticed this since upgrading to Wheezy. We have also delayed upgrading the rest of our servers until this gets fixed. On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 10:45 AM, Scott Ferguson scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/07/13 00:30, Will Platnick wrote: More

Re: High Load/Interrupts on Wheezy

2013-07-03 Thread Will Platnick
So since there seems to be a few of us having this issue, are there any Debian or linux kernel engineers out there who are willing to help? Is this the best place for that? On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 3:50 PM, David Mckisick mckis...@gmail.com wrote: Same issue here exactly and have noticed this

High Load/Interrupts on Wheezy

2013-07-02 Thread Will Platnick
of the software, just built on Wheezy instead of Squeeze. My problem is that my Wheezy boxes have a load of over 3 and are not staying up during our peak time, whereas our squeeze boxes have a load of less than 1.The interesting part, is that despite the high load, my wheezy boxes are actually performing

Re: MySQL slow and high load with Debian Wheezy (was: [whole mail text])

2013-05-24 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Hi Andrei, How could that KMail can answer from the subject if marked, but I strongly second Lisi´s notion of putting a legible text into the mail body and using a fine descriptive and short enough subject for the mail. Am Donnerstag, 23. Mai 2013, 11:15:29 schrieb Andrei Hristow: Hi, I have

Intermittent high load average after upgrade to lenny / 2.6.26-2 ?

2009-11-09 Thread Glyn Astill
Hi Chaps, I've upgraded a server running our database connection pool software from etch on 2.6.18 to lenny on 2.6.26 and I'm now seeing intermittant high load averages. I don't see anything CPU or IO bound on the machine using top and vmstat, and I'm absoloutely baffled by it. Normal load

Re: Regular high load peaks on servers

2009-10-21 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
Julien wrote: Hi, Since quite a long time now, we observe the same phenomenon on three web servers we have on two different places. They regularly have high load peaks, until 20 to 50. These peaks append very regularly (from once a day to several an hour), and we can't explain why. It doesn't

Regular high load peaks on servers

2009-10-20 Thread Julien
Hi, Since quite a long time now, we observe the same phenomenon on three web servers we have on two different places. They regularly have high load peaks, until 20 to 50. These peaks append very regularly (from once a day to several an hour), and we can't explain why. It doesn't seem

etch testing bug 341055 spamassassin and exim - high load

2006-04-25 Thread hanasaki
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=341055 http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=4590 Anyone have a work around? the --round-robin from the above link has lessened the issue however it is still creating a load ave of over 12.0 ! I tried downgrading to sarge/stable

Re: Woody: High load average, but no processes hogging...

2005-06-07 Thread Adam Garside
On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 02:54:37PM +1200, Simon wrote: [snip] I have noticed high(ish) load averages (currently 2.08, last week it was 17!!), but there is no processes hogging the CPU, nor are we using any [snip] Check the output of ps(1) and look for processes in the 'D' state. Also, check

Re: Woody: High load average, but no processes hogging...

2005-06-07 Thread Simon
Adam Garside wrote: I have noticed high(ish) load averages (currently 2.08, last week it was 17!!), but there is no processes hogging the CPU, nor are we using any [snip] Check the output of ps(1) and look for processes in the 'D' state. Nothing there. All seems fine. Also, check I/O

gateway pppd, syslog high load

2004-04-14 Thread Alex Handle
hallo! ich hab vor kurzem ein gateway (adsl pptp, iptables) aufgesetzt. mein problem ist die zu hohe load. ---top-- 11:12:49 up 12 days, 19:01, 1 user, load average: 1.65, 1.45, 1.42 29 processes: 24 sleeping, 4 running, 1 zombie, 0 stopped CPU states: 75.6% user, 24.4% system, 0.0% nice,

Re: gateway pppd, syslog high load

2004-04-14 Thread Timo Eckert
On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 09:19:12 +0200 Alex Handle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: vom der hardware durfte es jedoch kein problem sein: 256 MB und 1800+ Athlon sind eigentlich überdimensioniert für einen router und das netz ist auch nicht zu groß, ca. 10 clients. mir ist auch aufgefallen, dass die

Re: gateway pppd, syslog high load

2004-04-14 Thread Alex Handle
nein hab eine 20 GB platte und es sind nur ca 400 mb drauf On Wednesday 14 April 2004 09:49, Timo Eckert wrote: On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 09:19:12 +0200 Alex Handle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: vom der hardware durfte es jedoch kein problem sein: 256 MB und 1800+ Athlon sind eigentlich

Re: gateway pppd, syslog high load

2004-04-14 Thread Alex Handle
Ich hatte das selbe problem schon bei einem anderen rechner, ich glaube es liegt nicht an der hardware. On Wednesday 14 April 2004 09:49, Timo Eckert wrote: On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 09:19:12 +0200 Alex Handle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: vom der hardware durfte es jedoch kein problem sein: 256 MB

Re: gateway pppd, syslog high load

2004-04-14 Thread Timo Eckert
On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 10:12:08 +0200 Alex Handle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: nein hab eine 20 GB platte und es sind nur ca 400 mb drauf Hast du den syslogd mal restarted? Sonnige Grüsse, Timo.

Re: gateway pppd, syslog high load

2004-04-14 Thread Alex Handle
ich hab den syslog jetzt gestoppt und jetzt geht die load leicht runter load average: 1.04, 1.29, 1.38 nach einem start geht die load wieder hoch ... vielleicht liegt es am dhcpd der schreibt ziemlich viel in die daemon.log -- /var/log/daemon.log -- Apr 13 23:47:28 router dhcpd-2.2.x:

Re: gateway pppd, syslog high load

2004-04-14 Thread Timo Eckert
On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 10:45:59 +0200 Alex Handle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ich hab den syslog jetzt gestoppt und jetzt geht die load leicht runter load average: 1.04, 1.29, 1.38 Naja, aber immer noch über 1.. was sagt denn 'dmesg'? Irgendwelche Errors? Sonnige Grüsse, Timo.

Re: gateway pppd, syslog high load

2004-04-14 Thread Alex Handle
mir ist auch aufgefallen, dass ppp und pptp 2 x gestartet sind: router:~# ps aux | grep pptp root 16556 0.0 0.2 1316 524 ?SApr13 0:04 /usr/sbin/pptp root 16558 0.0 0.2 1316 552 ?SApr13 0:00 /usr/sbin/pptp router:~# ps aux | grep ppp root 348 21.1

Re: gateway pppd, syslog high load

2004-04-14 Thread Alex Handle
hab das in der kern.log gefunden sieht auch nicht gut aus: -- kern.log -- Apr 12 17:50:40 router kernel: eth1: Oversized Ethernet frame spanned multiple buffers, entry 0xd length 0 status 0400! Apr 12 17:50:40 router kernel: eth1: Oversized Ethernet frame cbaa90d0 vs cbaa90d0. Apr 12

high load but no cpu usage

2003-10-04 Thread Shri Shrikumar
Hi, I seem to have a strange problem. I have a server which is showing a load average of around 1 but cpu usage of 0.6% over two cpus. What bothers me is that load average used to stay under 0.16 previously - nothing has changed. I have already tried to see if there are any processes blocking

Re: high load but no cpu usage

2003-10-04 Thread Rus Foster
Hi, I seem to have a strange problem. I have a server which is showing a load average of around 1 but cpu usage of 0.6% over two cpus. This would imply I/O wait for me. What sort of disks does it have? What bothers me is that load average used to stay under 0.16 previously - nothing has

Re: high load but no cpu usage

2003-10-04 Thread Shri Shrikumar
On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 19:44, Rus Foster wrote: Hi, I seem to have a strange problem. I have a server which is showing a load average of around 1 but cpu usage of 0.6% over two cpus. This would imply I/O wait for me. What sort of disks does it have? Thats what I thought but this same

high load average

2002-09-23 Thread Jason Pepas
the other day I was moving several gigs of files from one ide drive to another on the same ide chain (the secondary channel is broken) and my load average went up to around 7 (no, not 0.07). The machine would become unresponsive for several seconds at a time. This is a uniprocessor machine,

Re: high load average

2002-09-23 Thread Ramon Kagan
Have you checked your dma settings? hdparm/hwtools? Ramon Kagan York University, Computing and Network Services Unix Team - Intermediate System Administrator (416)736-2100 #20263 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I have not failed. I have just found 10,000 ways that

Re: high load average

2002-09-23 Thread nate
Jason Pepas said: the other day I was moving several gigs of files from one ide drive to another on the same ide chain (the secondary channel is broken) and my load average went up to around 7 (no, not 0.07). The machine would become unresponsive for several seconds at a time. This is a

Re: high load average

2002-09-23 Thread Bijan Soleymani
Is this normal? I don't seem to remember having ide performance issues like this before (this is a new install). This is normal if dma is not enabled. It isn't enabled by default in Debian. To enable it install hdparm and then run hdparm -d1 /dev/hdx as root where x is either a,b,c,d

Re: high load average

2002-09-23 Thread Quenten Griffith
Or just get hwtools it creates a basic init.d script where you put your hdparm flags Bijan Soleymani wrote: Is this normal? I don't seem to remember having ide performance issues like this before (this is a new install). This is normal if dma is not enabled. It isn't enabled by

Re: high load average

2002-09-23 Thread Jack O'Quin
Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is this normal? I don't seem to remember having ide performance issues like this before (this is a new install). This is normal if dma is not enabled. It isn't enabled by default in Debian. To enable it install hdparm and then run hdparm -d1

Samba Problem: dead smbd, high load, kill -9 funktioniert nicht

2002-06-18 Thread Proud Debian-User
Hallo ML, mein fileserver hat heute nacht seltsamerweise ueber 70 smbd connections bekommen, von diversen Rechnern in meinem Netzwerk. Soweit ok, sind aber alle nicht mehr aktiv, tauchen aber noch im smbstatus auf. Lassen sich mit kill -9 nicht beenden. netstat zeigt CLOSE_WAIT bei allen an.

Re: Samba Problem: dead smbd, high load, kill -9 funktioniert nicht

2002-06-18 Thread Johannes Athmer
On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 04:59:43PM +0200, Proud Debian-User wrote: Hallo ML, Hallo Proud Debian-User, [ Samba hat high load - Prozesse koennen nicht gekillt werden ] Booten ist leider nicht drin, der Server ist in einem abgeschlossenen Raum und bootet leider seid drei tagen nicht mehr

High Load Average

2001-06-03 Thread Jordi S. Bunster
the same stuff, but with Slackware. Load was never that high, and the machine swapped all the time, at least 25 Megs. The new Debian Box never swaps, but has a high load always. Any thoughts? Jordi S. Bunster [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: High Load Average

2001-06-03 Thread Forrest English
550 Mhz) running the same stuff, but with Slackware. Load was never that high, and the machine swapped all the time, at least 25 Megs. The new Debian Box never swaps, but has a high load always. Any thoughts? Jordi S. Bunster [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: High Load Average

2001-06-03 Thread Alvin Oga
that high, and the machine swapped all the time, at least 25 Megs. The new Debian Box never swaps, but has a high load always.

Re: High Load Average

2001-06-03 Thread Christoph Simon
On Sun, 3 Jun 2001 22:51:51 -0300 (BRT) Jordi S. Bunster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just a question: Is there any reason in particular for a Debian Box keep its load average always over 6? Not really. Did you try top to find out which processes are doing that? Maybe you where running a

Re: High Load Average

2001-06-03 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ay or you could have a hacker running an irc on your machine -- if the rest of your lan/machines is fine... than probably not c ya alvin On Sun, 3 Jun 2001, Alvin Oga wrote: hi ya jordi you have a run away process and/or a memory leak ( amd and intel cpu behave slightly

Re: High Load Average

2001-06-03 Thread Jordi S. Bunster
you have a run away process and/or a memory leak ( amd and intel cpu behave slightly differently for ( the same code... Mmm .. speaking about internal programs, we only have some perl scripts. Perl is the compiled one, right? what apps is running??? We JUST installed the server. I mean,

Re: High Load Average

2001-06-03 Thread Petr \[Dingo\] Dvorak
On Sun, 3 Jun 2001, Jordi S. Bunster wrote: JSB you have a run away process and/or a memory leak JSB JSB ( amd and intel cpu behave slightly differently for JSB ( the same code... JSB JSB Mmm .. speaking about internal programs, we only have some perl JSB scripts. Perl is the compiled one,

Re: High Load Average

2001-06-03 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 11:18:41PM -0300, Jordi S. Bunster wrote: 91 processes: 89 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU states: 68.7% user, 31.2% system, 0.0% nice, 0.0% idle Mem: 257856K av, 229104K used, 28752K free, 103600K shrd, 73192K buff Swap: 128484K av, 0K used,

Re: High Load Average

2001-06-03 Thread Christoph Simon
On Sun, 3 Jun 2001 23:18:41 -0300 (BRT) Jordi S. Bunster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you have a run away process and/or a memory leak ( amd and intel cpu behave slightly differently for ( the same code... Mmm .. speaking about internal programs, we only have some perl scripts. Perl

Re: High Load Average

2001-06-03 Thread Nate Amsden
mail servers didnt dip below load of 8 until i upgraded the system's hardware. amavis is great..but if you got a lotta mail you need more horsepower. also if your using something like UW Imap that can be a cause for very high load as well. i suggest switching to something else like CYRUS which

kernel 2.4.2 and high load = machine freezes?

2001-03-29 Thread Erik Steffl
I installed kernel 2.4.2 and while it works ok most of the time there were two occasions when computer (almost) froze, load being 100% and almost nothing worked for about an hor or more. both times this high load attack happened I opened xv (the thumbs view) on a directory with large number

Re: kernel 2.4.2 and high load = machine freezes?

2001-03-29 Thread Nate Amsden
Erik Steffl wrote: any ideas on what's going on? login on an xterm from another machine and run top while you try that. recently i upgraded my firewall from a k6-3 400 to a p3-800 and doubled the memory to 512MB. but it was still much slower!! turns out the VIA ide chipset on the p3

Re: high load average

2001-03-09 Thread kmself
on Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 11:12:16PM -0500, MaD dUCK ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: [cc'ing this to PLUG because it seems interesting...] also sprach kmself@ix.netcom.com (on Mon, 05 Mar 2001 08:02:51PM -0800): It's not 200% loaded. There are two processes in the run queue. I'd do huh? is

Re: high load average

2001-03-09 Thread kmself
on Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 11:21:07AM -0600, Dave Sherohman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 06:09:41PM +0100, Joris Lambrecht wrote: isn't 2.00 more like 2% ? It is US notation where . is a decimal separator. Not ? You have the notation correct, but load average and CPU

Re: high load average

2001-03-09 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 10:55:10PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: on Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 11:21:07AM -0600, Dave Sherohman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: You have the notation correct, but load average and CPU utilization are not directly related. Load average is the average number of

Re: high load average

2001-03-09 Thread kmself
it in different terms: - Load average is how often you're asking for it. - CPU utilization is how often you're getting it. High load average means you've got more requests than you can handle. But the actual efficiency of servicing of requests is not considered. High utilization means you're

Re: high load average

2001-03-09 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 03:25:24PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: The clarification is given in the O'Reilly citation. Runnable processes, not waiting on other resources, I/O blocking excepted. Excellent - thanks! -- Linux will do for applications what the Internet did for networks.

RE: high load average

2001-03-06 Thread Joris Lambrecht
Dear dUCK, isn't 2.00 more like 2% ? It is US notation where . is a decimal separator. Not ? -Original Message- From: MaD dUCK [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 3:38 AM To: debian users Subject: high load average someone explain this to me: albatross:~$ uname

Re: high load average

2001-03-06 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 06:09:41PM +0100, Joris Lambrecht wrote: isn't 2.00 more like 2% ? It is US notation where . is a decimal separator. Not ? You have the notation correct, but load average and CPU utilization are not directly related. Load average is the average number of processes that

high load average

2001-03-05 Thread MaD dUCK
someone explain this to me: albatross:~$ uname -a Linux albatross 2.2.17 #2 Mon Sep 04 20:49:27 CET 2000 i586 unknown albatross:~$ uptime 2:56am up 174 days, 5:50, 1 user, load average: 2.00, 2.05, 2.01 # processes sorted by decreasing cpu usage albatross:~$ ps aux | head -1 ps aux |

Re: high load average

2001-03-05 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
not during the last 1, 5, or 15 minutes. and cron isn't running, there are *only* 35 running jobs. why, oh why then is it 200% loaded??? Load average is not an indication of how busy the CPU is. A busy CPU can *cause* a high load average, but so can other stuff. In this case, I would guess

Re: high load average

2001-03-05 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Noah L. Meyerhans (on Mon, 05 Mar 2001 09:51:53PM -0500): Load average is not an indication of how busy the CPU is. A busy CPU can *cause* a high load average, but so can other stuff. good point. so i found two offending processes in state D: root 24520 0.0 0.9 1652 904

Re: high load average

2001-03-05 Thread kmself
on Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 09:37:36PM -0500, MaD dUCK ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: someone explain this to me: albatross:~$ uname -a Linux albatross 2.2.17 #2 Mon Sep 04 20:49:27 CET 2000 i586 unknown albatross:~$ uptime 2:56am up 174 days, 5:50, 1 user, load average: 2.00, 2.05, 2.01

Re: high load average

2001-03-05 Thread MaD dUCK
[cc'ing this to PLUG because it seems interesting...] also sprach kmself@ix.netcom.com (on Mon, 05 Mar 2001 08:02:51PM -0800): It's not 200% loaded. There are two processes in the run queue. I'd do huh? is that what 2.00 means? the average length of the run queue? that would explain it

Re: High load

2000-05-01 Thread Raghavendra Bhat
Suresh Kumar posts: I have never seen load averages going above 2 earlier with redhat installation. On a similar setup while running Netscape ? Please install libc5 and libg++272 found in /oldlibs of the Debian 'slink' CD. ragOO, VU2RGU. Kochi, INDIA. Keeping the

High load

2000-04-28 Thread Suresh Kumar.R
Hi, I recently installed a debian 2.1 on my machine which was earlier running redhat 5.2. (pentium 100MHz, 16mb ram). The machine becomes very very slow and unusable when I run netscape. I have dialup connection. The load average goes 100 and more. I have never seen load averages going above 2

RE: High load

2000-04-28 Thread Bryan Scaringe
Recent versions of netscape will slow a 16Mb system to a crawl. How does the system respond when you aren't running netscape? What window manager are you using? What else are you running at the time. Check you netscape memory cache size. I would be wiling to bet the problem lies in the (lack

high load but idle CPU

1999-05-27 Thread Max
I have a dual-CPU system running potato with kernel 2.2.3. Here's what top reports: 6:30pm up 36 days, 20:55, 10 users, load average: 5.22, 5.28, 5.17 152 processes: 147 sleeping, 2 running, 2 zombie, 1 stopped CPU states: 0.4% user, 1.5% system, 0.0% nice, 97.9% idle Mem: 516688K av,

Re: high load but idle CPU

1999-05-27 Thread Max
* George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] [05/26/99 18:59] wrote: Do a ps -ax and see how many processes you have stuck in D state ;). Then go and get 2.2.9 Yup, that explains it! I have 5 sxid processes in D state. Hmmmcould it have something to do with the fact that I installed arla 5 days ago

Re: high load but idle CPU

1999-05-27 Thread Joey Hess
George Bonser wrote: Any process involved with heavy net activity in an SMP system with 2.2.3 will do this. I had problems with web servers doing it. 2.2.9 seems OK. 2.2.6/7 were disasters. 2.2.5 seemed to work, though. Hm, could you expand on that? I've been using 2.2.7 for a while, what

Extremely High Load

1998-01-03 Thread LeighK
I'm running a Debian 1.3.1 system and find the machine, when put into our production environment here, after a little while causes the machine's load to rise, and keep on going. It was so bad it got up to 150+ once. At any ratI ran top one time and nothing was using any large amount of CPU, nor

Re: Extremely High Load

1998-01-03 Thread Shaleh
From personal experience this is a tad much for one machine. DNS can fill up some memory w/ cache and is a constant hit. Really should be its own 486 or so w/ some memory tossed in. Shell services can be dangerous, and a user could easily peg out a system. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING

Re: Extremely High Load

1998-01-03 Thread LeighK
On Sat, 3 Jan 1998, Shaleh wrote: From personal experience this is a tad much for one machine. DNS can fill up some memory w/ cache and is a constant hit. Really should be its own 486 or so w/ some memory tossed in. Shell services can be dangerous, and a user could easily peg out a system.

Re: Extremely High Load

1998-01-03 Thread Shaleh
From personal experience this is a tad much for one machine. DNS can fill up some memory w/ cache and is a constant hit. Really should be its own 486 or so w/ some memory tossed in. Shell services can be dangerous, and a user could easily peg out a system. We run a shell machine, a dns server,