Oliver Schulze L. wrote:
Hi,
I'm having a strange problem, after 1 week(6 or 7 days) my RH9 server experience
a sudenly very high load.
The load raises to 14, then 20 and even 30.
When I run: $ uptime it looks like this: 10:11:25 up 6 days, 17:19, 2 users, load average: 49.26, 44.17, 35.31
I reboot the server and then all works with no problems.
hmm, reboot is not the answer -
I know, reboot is never the answer. :-(
Can you see which processes are at the top in top?
slapd was forking to many process, like 15 process, but none of them used more than 5% of cpu.
Could be I/O wait, could be hung rpm, or other things...
the I/O wait was cero on top. I killed all daemons and then the load lowered. But as soon as I starter sendmail of openldap, the load raised again. Always, the CPU usage in top was under 10%
Does the system become sluggish as well?
Yes.
BTW, its a Pentium III 800Mhz 256MB
Joe
-- Oliver Schulze L. <oliver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
