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 a

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 https

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 Memor

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.. I

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 porti

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 syst

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 buying

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
where 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, Chri

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 su

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 reprod

Re: NFS on Raspberry Pi high load

2015-06-21 Thread Sven Hartge
Bob Proulx 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 (the Raspi2 i

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 maxi

Re: NFS on Raspberry Pi high load

2015-06-19 Thread Sven Hartge
Reco wrote: > On Fri, 19 Jun 2015 20:38:12 +0200 Sven Hartge 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 sufficient for my needs, but still.

Re: NFS on Raspberry Pi high load

2015-06-19 Thread Sven Hartge
Reco wrote: > On Fri, 19 Jun 2015 20:38:12 +0200 Sven Hartge 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 lowering knfsd > count. That would a

Re: NFS on Raspberry Pi high load

2015-06-19 Thread Reco
roblem 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

Re: NFS on Raspberry Pi high load

2015-06-19 Thread Sven Hartge
best conditions you may be able to transfer up to >>>> 45MBit/s, but a maximum transfer 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

Re: NFS on Raspberry Pi high load

2015-06-19 Thread Michael Biebl
;>> >>> Under the best conditions you 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

Re: NFS on Raspberry Pi high load

2015-06-19 Thread Reco
Ethernet-Chip is attached via USB. > > > > > > Under the best conditions you 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 th

Re: NFS on Raspberry Pi high load

2015-06-19 Thread Petter Adsen
t; > 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. Petter -- "I'm ionized" "Are you sure?" "I'm positive." pgpb9DSiuayKO.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

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 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

Re: NFS on Raspberry Pi high load

2015-06-19 Thread Sven Hartge
basti 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 best conditions you may b

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 my

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 connecti

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 wrote: > Same issue here exactly and have noticed this since upgrading to Wh

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 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 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 chang

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
s 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 quite well, and are out

Re: High Load/Interrupts on Wheezy

2013-07-03 Thread Darac Marjal
f 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, the high load is giving us cause for concern and is > stopping us from migrating completely, and w

High Load/Interrupts on Wheezy

2013-07-02 Thread Will Platnick
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

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 do

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

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 f

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 wit

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

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

2005-06-06 Thread Simon
Hi There, Running Debian woody as a LAMP(PHP) server, on a AMD 1.5GHz, 512MB RAM with software RAID1... 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 swap... any ideas where to start with this o

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 thi

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 h

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 usi

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

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 enable

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 depe

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

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 don'

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

2001-06-03 Thread Nate Amsden
of big attachments? one of my 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

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 >

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 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 com

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 me

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 d

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 Net

Re: High Load Average

2001-06-03 Thread Alvin Oga
50 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. >

Re: High Load Average

2001-06-03 Thread Forrest English
rong? > > Sidenote: We had another similar machine (processor was a PIII > 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.

High Load Average

2001-06-03 Thread Jordi S. Bunster
g 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: 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 board(asu

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: 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

2001-03-09 Thread kmself
s just that: load average is concerned with CPU, it is *not* concerned with memory, disk I/O (though I/O blocking can effect it), etc. However, as I clarify in this current post, and my prior thread, load average is not equivalent to CPU _utilization_. To put it in different terms: - Load ave

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
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

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?

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

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:~$ una

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 becau

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

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 0.9 165

Re: high load average

2001-03-05 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
used*, especially 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.

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 | so

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 Air-Wa

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 o

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 ear

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 pr

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 ag

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, 4802

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,

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 sys

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

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 was