Oliver, Yes, with sustained load averages above 10 you definitely have a problem. If this really is an "on Mondays" problem, I would strongly suspect your problem is in one of the utilities called by scripts in /etc/cron.weekly. Obviously you'd be looking for a script scheduled to start some time Monday morning. No, swap file sizes don't have to be multiples of 2^n. Effective with 2.4 kernels, their size has to be equal to at least twice your installed system RAM -- up to an uncertain point somewhere above 1G. Oracle database engines are an example. For virtually all end user systems, the 2X rule of thumb applies. Are you experiencing any nameservice delays? Is your sendmail.cf set to block SMTP relaying? Have you run 'rpm --rebuilddb' lately (after deleting the __db.* files)? Are any of your filesystems above 90% full? Does 'top' give you any clues? Are you sure you haven't been 'rooted'? Do let us know when you discover what's causing this. --Doc Savage Fairview Heights, IL On Monday July 14, 2003 "Oliver Schulze L." <oliver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > well, it happen again. > At 0810 EST (more or less) today the loadavg rocketed again. > Here is what I found: > [root@xxxxxx root]# uptime > 08:50:34 up 6 days, 22:23, 2 users, load average: 29.33, 25.87, > 18.79 > > I have 2 swap files in /SWAP and /SWAP1. Does it matters the size of > them? Must they have a size like 2^n ? > > Now I will reboot the server this wendesday. Maybe somthing is running > every monday morning that "crash" the server > > Thanks > Oliver > > 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. >> >> The only not common thing I'm running is: openldap + nscd >> >> Any clues? -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
