Hi, well, I can confirm that the problem is not "on mondays". I rebooted last wednesday and this monday I had no problems. I have the same working conditions.
About the other problems, - 24GB free - I'm not an open relay, tested in ordb.org and osirusoft.com - top does not says anything, no heavy CPU usage, no heavy IO usage. - I'm not rooted as fas as I know. My RH9 is up to date and I have open to the outside world only: smtp, http, https, ssh - rpm --rebuilddb works fine.
Now, the moment of truth is this wednesday, 2 days from now. Will keep informed.
My last clue is to remake the swap files and use only 1 partition and 1 big file.
Not 2 files of 128MB each.
Thanks Oliver
dsavage@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
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?
-- Oliver Schulze L. <oliver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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