[SLUG] High System CPU usage and finding culprit

2012-05-08 Thread Grant Street
Hello I have some desktop linux machines that have periods of extremely high system time (30-90%) with no obvious cause. The users see it as a hang or a freeze to the point of 10sec for a key press to register. it comes and goes seemingly randomly but only lasts max about 1-2 min. What I'm

Re: [SLUG] High System CPU usage and finding culprit

2012-05-08 Thread David Lyon
Are they dual core ? Do they have a sheetload of memory ? I found ubuntu got slower and slower till I got in newer hardware. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] High System CPU usage and finding culprit

2012-05-08 Thread Michael Fox
Hello Grant, Distribution? Release? I'd go about reviewing the sysstat output (aka sar reports) during the period of the issue to see io stats, any usful things to see if something stands out. Will also allow you to review the swap usage during those times too. If the package is not installed,

Re: [SLUG] High System CPU usage and finding culprit

2012-05-08 Thread Grant Street
16 core, 12-24G memory running centos 6.1 On 09/05/12 10:08, David Lyon wrote: Are they dual core ? Do they have a sheetload of memory ? I found ubuntu got slower and slower till I got in newer hardware. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription

Re: [SLUG] High System CPU usage and finding culprit

2012-05-08 Thread Michael Fox
In which case, enable sysstat on centos if it's not already. will help moving forward.. On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 10:11 AM, Grant Street gra...@al.com.au wrote: 16 core, 12-24G memory running centos 6.1 On 09/05/12 10:08, David Lyon wrote: Are they dual core ? Do they have a sheetload of

Re: [SLUG] High System CPU usage and finding culprit

2012-05-08 Thread John Ferlito
On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 10:11:43AM +1000, Grant Street wrote: 16 core, 12-24G memory running centos 6.1 I can highly recommend collectd for collecting system stats. It collects them at 10 seconds and it knows about an amazing load of stuff. Really easy to go back in time and work out what was

Re: [SLUG] High System CPU usage and finding culprit

2012-05-08 Thread Jason Ball
I've seen a similar problem that took several weeks to identify. There is an issue with transparent hugepage support (aka memory defrag) where it causes processes on a server to stall and a number of other weird symptoms, I actually suspected dodgy drivers for one of my raid controllers before I

Re: [SLUG] High System CPU usage and finding culprit

2012-05-08 Thread Jason Ball
my solution appears to have fixed the problems I was seeing for a little over a week now. As such - reported to Centos for fixing... http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=5716 Cheers J. On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 10:28 AM, Jason Ball ja...@ball.net wrote: I've seen a similar problem that took

[SLUG] $11.7m for OLPC Australia in the federal govt budget

2012-05-08 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
The Australian Government is providing over $11 million to support the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Program which will deliver over 50,000 custom built laptops to primary students in regional and remote Australia as part of a 12 month pilot program. The OLPC Australia Organisation (OLPC Australia)

Re: [SLUG] $11.7m for OLPC Australia in the federal govt budget

2012-05-08 Thread Robert Collins
On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 1:03 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@dhanapalan.com wrote: The Australian Government is providing over $11 million to support the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Program which will deliver over 50,000 Thats pretty awesome. Are OLPC still doing the 'buy one donate one' program?

Re: [SLUG] $11.7m for OLPC Australia in the federal govt budget

2012-05-08 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 9 May 2012 11:50, Robert Collins robe...@robertcollins.net wrote: On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 1:03 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@dhanapalan.com wrote: The Australian Government is providing over $11 million to support the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Program which will deliver over 50,000

[SLUG] Open source log analyser tools (or: Alternatives to Splunk)

2012-05-08 Thread Mark Walkom
We are looking at Splunk for syslog analysing to close a hole in our application visibility, but it's expensive. I've looked at alternatives like logstash and graylog2, but I wanted to see if anyone had some experiences they would be willing to share on either splunk or other. This was raised a