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> > > > > -- > Shrike-list mailing list > Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
