Re: [Scottish] Damn those pesky processess....

2004-07-21 Thread ray
On Wednesday 21 July 2004 21:24, Colin McKinnon wrote: CM> But fumbling with elvtune seems to have alleviated things (elvtune=Peer Gynt CM> by Greig, Act II/scene 2) I thought they were trolls not elvs -- ray ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [Scottish] Damn those pesky processess....

2004-07-21 Thread Colin McKinnon
On Wednesday 21 July 2004 08:42, ray wrote: > On Tuesday 20 July 2004 20:03, Colin McKinnon wrote: > > I did find what looks like a good guide to performance tuning at: > > http://people.redhat.com/alikins/system_tuning.html > > I liked this tip - Is that the excuse for a big chunk of your server r

Re: [Scottish] Damn those pesky processess....

2004-07-21 Thread ray
On Tuesday 20 July 2004 20:03, Colin McKinnon wrote: > I did find what looks like a good guide to performance tuning at: > http://people.redhat.com/alikins/system_tuning.html I liked this tip - Is that the excuse for a big chunk of your server room being occupied by audio-visual kit? ___

Re: [Scottish] Damn those pesky processess....

2004-07-20 Thread Colin McKinnon
On Tuesday 20 July 2004 00:41, Kyle Gordon wrote: > Could be updatedb running, if you have slocate or locate installed. Usually > if the box is quiet, and something is thrashing the disk, then you can spot > it with 'top'. Failing that, you could try lsof, netstat, vmstat, sar. > On Monday 19 July

Re: [Scottish] Damn those pesky processess....

2004-07-19 Thread Kyle Gordon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Could be updatedb running, if you have slocate or locate installed. Usually if the box is quiet, and something is thrashing the disk, then you can spot it with 'top'. Failing that, you could try lsof, netstat, vmstat, sar. I know there are others, b

Re: [Scottish] Damn those pesky processess....

2004-07-19 Thread Jamie MacIsaac
On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 22:09, Colin McKinnon wrote: > Hi all, > > Something is producing rather a lot of load on some of my boxes. Idle time > stays high (>95%) and the swap isn't getting used but there seems to be a lot > of disk i/o. Can anybody suggest anything useful for tracking down the >

[Scottish] Damn those pesky processess....

2004-07-19 Thread Colin McKinnon
Hi all, Something is producing rather a lot of load on some of my boxes. Idle time stays high (>95%) and the swap isn't getting used but there seems to be a lot of disk i/o. Can anybody suggest anything useful for tracking down the problem? Is iohog available on Linux (haven't found it yetb