Re: CPU usage 100% but no process hogging CPU

2007-10-28 Thread Gunther Mayer
Kris Kennaway wrote: Gunther Mayer wrote: I don't see why my javavm, apache, postgres and/or radiusd would spawn such short lived processes. Come to think of it, I know radius might be doing just that, but how the heck would I go about finding out? top -H brings me no closer... Either

Re: CPU usage 100% but no process hogging CPU

2007-10-28 Thread Kris Kennaway
Gunther Mayer wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: Gunther Mayer wrote: I don't see why my javavm, apache, postgres and/or radiusd would spawn such short lived processes. Come to think of it, I know radius might be doing just that, but how the heck would I go about finding out? top -H brings me no

Re: CPU usage 100% but no process hogging CPU

2007-10-28 Thread Mario Lobo
On Sunday 28 October 2007 10:38:36 Kris Kennaway wrote: Oh, you were going by the load average? That is not a measure of system performance, it only shows how many processes are running. Anyway, glad you resolved it to your satisfaction. Kris What would be the proper way to measure system

Re: CPU usage 100% but no process hogging CPU

2007-10-28 Thread Kris Kennaway
Mario Lobo wrote: On Sunday 28 October 2007 10:38:36 Kris Kennaway wrote: Oh, you were going by the load average? That is not a measure of system performance, it only shows how many processes are running. Anyway, glad you resolved it to your satisfaction. Kris What would be the proper way

Re: CPU usage 100% but no process hogging CPU

2007-10-27 Thread Bruce Cran
Gunther Mayer wrote: Hi there, I'm having some capacity issues on the FreeBSD 6.2/Core 2 Duo/2GB RAM server that I manage. For quite a few days now it constantly shows load averages of around 1 and a CPU usage of around 100%. Yet summing up the CPU usage of the individual processes running I

Re: CPU usage 100% but no process hogging CPU

2007-10-27 Thread Kris Kennaway
Gunther Mayer wrote: Hi there, I'm having some capacity issues on the FreeBSD 6.2/Core 2 Duo/2GB RAM server that I manage. For quite a few days now it constantly shows load averages of around 1 and a CPU usage of around 100%. Yet summing up the CPU usage of the individual processes running I