On Saturday 05 April 2003 09:14, Kenneth Godee wrote: > On Wed, 13 Nov 2002 12:14:17 +0000 > > garry saddington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear list members, > > I have two questions > > Recently my LTSP servers have been exhibiting some worrying signs. The > > load average has been soaring, sometimes with only a few users and there > > has been no indication in 'top' of any runaway processes. Indeed most of > > the time the cpu has been shown to be over 90% idle and no swap is being > > used. Can anyone suggest what is going wrong? It mostly happens when > > browsers are being used to surf the net, but I can't pinpoint any > > particular one as being the culprit. We have recently changed to > > broadband, could this have anything to do with it? > > > > Next is, I think , a filesystem problem. > > This has also recently started to happen. I have a single /home server > > from which my LTSP servers mount /home at boot via NFS. At various times > > this directory does not allow the creation of new directories which can > > sometimes(not always) be cured by deleting a directory but then many more > > than one may be created after this. Individual student directories have > > randomly become unwritable, for instance during the set up of a new > > version of OpenOffice (after the deletion of previous OO directories). > > All the permissions are set correctly, and the /home server is running > > RedHat 7.2. Using ssh to connect to the /home server and running commands > > directly on it does not solve the problem. Is there any logical > > explanation for this seemingly illogical behaviour. > > > > regards > > garry saddington > > Garry, > If somethings eating cpu cycles you should be able to tell what process > it is? That is the point I can't see what is eating cycles ?hardware problem?
> If you suspect file system problems, What's the result of "df" > or it sounds more like your running out of inodes, try "df -i" and > take a look. You could have lots of space left, but if you running > low on inodes it would exhibit those kinds of problems, Just a guess. > Ken > There is about 80Gb free on a 120 Gb disk i have not yet checked the inodes because i am not at school regards garry> > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: ValueWeb: > Dedicated Hosting for just $79/mo with 500 GB of bandwidth! > No other company gives more support or power for your dedicated server > http://click.atdmt.com/AFF/go/sdnxxaff00300020aff/direct/01/ > _____________________________________________________________________ > Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss > For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: ValueWeb: Dedicated Hosting for just $79/mo with 500 GB of bandwidth! No other company gives more support or power for your dedicated server http://click.atdmt.com/AFF/go/sdnxxaff00300020aff/direct/01/ _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
