On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 7:15 PM, Rico Secada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Apr 2008 20:13:23 -0700 > "Pete Kay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Pete. > > > Can someone tell me what problem is it? This is my test environment, > > but I don't want the same thing to happen in our production server. > > Therefore, I am thinking whether Debian is suitable for production > > use. > > You are looking at this the wrong way! > > Debian is used world wide in production by thousands of companies > including our own. Debian is very suitable. > > What you have to do is to investigate what is going on with your > machine before, while and after the problems occur. Even a small > mistake in your setup can cause the problem that you describe. > > Answer these questions and you will properly find the answer to your > problem: > > 1. How is your network setup? > 2. Why are you running Firefox on the machine? It has been running for > quite a while.. doing what? > > 6623 anne 15 0 337m 145m 26m S 24 14.5 169:28.67 firefox-bin > > 3. What is notify.php? > > 4292 root 25 0 15808 1004 856 R 98 0.1 1441:12 notify.php > > notify.php is eating a LOT of CPU and this is very likely the cause of > your problem. > > 4. This is not related, but you are running asterisk as root. You > should not! If asterisk is compromised then the attacker will gain root > access right away. > > 5. What have you found in the logs? > > 6. Investigate your traffic when the machine becomes slow, if > notify.php is not the cause (but I think it is). > > Best regards. > > Rico. > > i don't consider 98% CPU usage a lot! it is more than a lot. i am agree, notify.php is the root of the problem..
