Re: Heavy load after 1 week

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Are you using NFS? I was reading the ¨Linux Adminitration Handbook¨ by nemeth 
et al. and it says that if there are too many nfsd you are going to ¨notice the
load average (as reported by uptime) rising as you add nfsd)¨ It also says to 
use nfsstat to chech for performance.


Rigo

On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 12:49:49PM -0400, Oliver Schulze L. wrote:
> 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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