when the server is normal the top say 12:01:26 up 91 days, 20:07, 3 users, load average: 1.71, 1.23, 1.66 172 processes: 166 sleeping, 4 running, 2 zombie, 0 stopped CPU states: cpu user nice system irq softirq iowait idle total 57.0% 0.0% 5.6% 0.0% 0.0% 9.8% 127.2% cpu00 24.1% 0.0% 3.3% 0.0% 0.0% 5.9% 66.4% cpu01 32.8% 0.0% 2.3% 0.0% 0.0% 3.9% 60.7% Mem: 1024780k av, 1007700k used, 17080k free, 0k shrd, 38324k buff 755896k actv, 142816k in_d, 15620k in_c Swap: 1999992k av, 324624k used, 1675368k free 604408k cache It can be a SCSI adapter issue ?? On 4/13/07, nilesh vaghela <nileshj.vaghela@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
This happens sometimes lets say once in 3 days or may be some time once in week. Let me try to increase the ram. [root@mailserver root]# free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 1000 984 16 0 37 593 -/+ buffers/cache: 353 647 Swap: 1953 316 1636 On 4/13/07, Andrei Pascal <andrei@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 01:15 -0400, nilesh vaghela wrote: > > We have mail server running with sendmail, horde with front end and > around > > 350 users. > > > > Some time the server indicate very high cpu usage. > > > > What is to be ckeck > > > > We are using RHEL3. > > > > > > 10:49:11 up 91 days, 18:55, 3 users, load average: 11.93, 15.27, > 13.87 > > 259 processes: 254 sleeping, 4 running, 1 zombie, 0 stopped > > CPU > states: cpu user nice system irq softirq iowait idle > > total 66.8% 0.0% 13.2% 0.4% 0.0% 118.8% > 0.0% > > cpu00 39.9% 0.0% 7.5% 0.5% 0.1% 51.6% > 0.0% > > cpu01 27.0% 0.0% 5.7% 0.0% 0.0% 67.1% > 0.0% > > Mem: 1024780k av, 1008968k used, 15812k free, 0k shrd, > 13764k > > buff > > 749248k actv, 143504k in_d, 14280k in_c > > Swap: 1999992k av, 437476k used, 1562516k > free 558700k > > cached > > -------------- > > [root@mailserver root]# ps -el | grep imap | wc -l > > 109 > > ----------------- > > The "iowait" field in the CPU usage status means your processess are > waiting for some data. Check you disk and network latency. 1 GB RAM > should do it, but your swap is bieng hit quite hard. Check vmstat for si > > and so (swap in / swap out) - I think that's where youp problem is. > > Try stopping unnecessary services or simply add an extra GB of RAM to > that machine. > > > Regards, > Andrei > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- Nilesh Vaghela ElectroMech Redhat Channel Partner and Training Partner 74, Nalanda Complex, Satellite Rd, Ahmedabad 25, The Emperor, Fatehgunj, Baroda. www.electromech.info
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