On 8/31/11 11:44 AM, Wesley Craig wrote: > On 31 Aug 2011, at 14:36, Maria McKinley wrote: >> Anyway, here is an example of some processes that are getting big: >> >> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND >> >> 24328 cyrus 20 0 147m 6236 5004 R 27.4 0.2 22:07.21 imapd >> >> 27549 cyrus 20 0 147m 6512 5116 R 27.4 0.2 155:41.26 imapd >> >> 30097 cyrus 20 0 147m 6280 5052 R 27.1 0.2 93:44.08 imapd >> >> >> Unfortunately I can't tell you anymore about these processes, since they >> are just cut and pasted from a terminal where I checked top before >> restarting cyrus, and cyrus has not regrown yet. > > It would be handy if you'd gather some metrics from a loaded but not pathological machine, and then additional metrics once it was in a bad state. Also, getting strace output from a run-away (if it is run-away) process would be handy. > > :wes Not sure how helpful this is, but you can see where the that I have restarted cyrus twice in the last 24 hours, and three times in the last week, and how this has affected the load, etc. of this machine. http://www.shadlen.org/munin/Servers/ella.shadlen.org/index.html ~m ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/
