Hi Rudolph, that might very well be a problem with the kernel since you still run a 2.2 kernel. any chance the system has IDE-Disks ? i am using a syslog server and it was running a 2.2.20 kernel. with this kernel the load was pretty high. after i upgraded to 2.4 kernel series the problem immediately disappeared. the 2.2 kernel has a lot of CPU problems fixed in the 2.4 tree. you should upgrade as well...
regards, philipp ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rudolph van Graan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2003 7:33 PM Subject: [mailinglists] Strange Load Average patterns Hi again, I'm struggling trying to get to the root of a possible problem with woody or the kernel. One of my up to date production machines show a very strange load average problem. Basically, the machine gradually builds up to a high LA and then abruptly at 6:30 in the morning this stops. It then builds up again, peaking just before 6:30 the next morning. I've done all sorts of traces - most of them using top that didn't show anything out of the ordinary. I've suspected that the machine might be hacked, but scanning through all of the processes in /proc, again nothing out of the ordinary. The only thing that I know is that sysklogd restarts about that time in the morning. I've checked and checked, and it definitely is not one of the user mode processes causing this. uname -a: Linux newton 2.2.20 #1 Sat Apr 20 11:45:28 EST 2002 i686 unknown $> dpkg --list | grep sysklog ii sysklogd 1.4.1-10 System Logging Daemon Any ideas? Regards, Rudolph van Graan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
