On Sun, 3 Jun 2001, Jordi S. Bunster wrote: JSB> > you have a run away process and/or a memory leak JSB> > JSB> > ( amd and intel cpu behave slightly differently for JSB> > ( the same code... JSB> JSB> Mmm .. speaking about internal programs, we only have some perl JSB> scripts. Perl is the compiled one, right? JSB> JSB> > what apps is running??? JSB> JSB> We JUST installed the server. I mean, there's nothing hand JSB> compiled, except for Amavis. But it doesn't eat that much CPU JSB> time. In fact, top reveals that everyone uses CPU all the time. A JSB> ipop3d session easily goes for 18%, and a apache or sendmail one JSB> goes for 47% ~ 56%. It is just like everyone is using the machine JSB> at its most. JSB> JSB> Look: JSB> JSB> 91 processes: 89 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped JSB> CPU states: 68.7% user, 31.2% system, 0.0% nice, 0.0% idle JSB> Mem: 257856K av, 229104K used, 28752K free, 103600K shrd, JSB> 73192K buff JSB> Swap: 128484K av, 0K used, 128484K free JSB> 86696K cached
check your bios settings, it looks like you have disabled external or internal cache .. they should be both enabled .. and all other memory region shadowing/caching should be disabled. Dingo. ).|.( '.'___'.' ' '(>~<)' ' -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-ooO-=(_)=-Ooo-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Petr [Dingo] Dvorak [EMAIL PROTECTED] Coder - Purple Dragon MUD pdragon.org port 3333 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-[ 369D93 ]=-=- Debian version 2.2.18pre21, up 4 days, 13 users, load average: 1.00 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-