Dear All, I had solved the problem earlier of CPU wait state being almost 100% and had solved the problem of disbling the cron job of tmpwatch -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 290 Jul 5 21:24 tmpwatch which is a cron.daily file now more investigations reveleved to me that since im running havp 0.89 with squid i have a directory created by havp in /var/tmp drwxrwx--- 2 havp havp 71536640 Jul 14 18:15 havp now if i do a cd /var/tmp i go to tmp directory which is fine then if i say cd havp my machine hangs and i see that the cpu wait state shoots upto 100% now i tried goin in asingle user mode and the same problem i ty to delete this directory i cannot actually since the tmpwatch cron job was clearing files in /var/tmp/havp it was hangging apprecite some help n advice how to get reid of this directory Regards Fabian > fabian wrote: >> Dear Guys >> >> Thanks and apprecite your quick replies >> By the way i had stated solving the problem of almost 100% CPU >> utulization >> starting everyday at 4 am and ending at 10 am in a very crude way >> top was reporting 95% wa >> >> i started to check the crontab file and noticed that the >> cron.daily entry in the file sarts at 4 am >> >> and in the directory i found >> >> >> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 133 Jul 6 16:59 00webalizer >> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 379 Jul 6 17:02 0anacron >> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 Nov 9 2008 0logwatch -> >> /usr/share/logwatch/scripts/logwatch.pl >> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 5 21:25 backup >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 62 Jul 6 17:37 clamav >> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 118 Jul 6 17:00 cups >> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 456 Nov 3 2008 freshclam >> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 26 Jul 6 17:00 havp >> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 180 Dec 2 2007 logrotate >> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 418 Jan 6 2007 makewhatis.cron >> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 137 Jul 6 17:23 mlocate.cron >> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2181 Jun 21 2006 prelink >> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 114 Jul 6 17:01 rpm >> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 290 Jul 5 21:24 tmpwatch >> >> >> i started movies some of thes files to difereent directory and finally >> found that it was the below file that was the culprit >> >> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 290 Jul 5 21:24 tmpwatch >> ------- >> the contents of the file was >> >> /usr/sbin/tmpwatch -x /tmp/.X11-unix -x /tmp/.XIM-unix -x >> /tmp/.font-unix \ >> -x /tmp/.ICE-unix -x /tmp/.Test-unix 240 /tmp >> /usr/sbin/tmpwatch 720 /var/tmp >> for d in /var/{cache/man,catman}/{cat?,X11R6/cat?,local/cat?}; do >> if [ -d "$d" ]; then >> /usr/sbin/tmpwatch -f 720 "$d" >> fi >> done >> ---------------- >> >> now everything works fine without this file in the /etc/cron.daily >> directory >> so the tmpwatch was the culprit cause the CPU wait state to almost 99 % >> for almost 6 hrs >> but jus would like to know if this particular script has any signifance >> or >> any perfomance issue and my system will run perfect without the file >> >> >> apprecite you help >> >> >> regards >> >> Fabian >> >> >> > man tmpwatch shows that this is designed to cleanup tmp directories - > you may want to see why your tmp files are either very many or have some > other issues > HTH > Rob > > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
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