As you mentioned - it is the system processes that are the problem, not any applications that you are running.
Redhat 7.2 is the 2.4 kernel, which is not entirely stable. There are also some problems with ipchains - use iptables instead. Cheers, Scott -- Scott Farquhar :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Atlassian :: http://www.atlassian.com Supporting YOUR J2EE World Christian Meunier wrote: > Hi,i re installed my server yesterday, upgrading mainly the os and some > hardware. > > > > I got like 30 000 visit / day with 2Millions hits > > the os is : RH 7.2, the cpu is an athlon 600MHz with 1.5Go SDRAM > > got an Adaptec raid controller 3200S ( one array in raid 1) > > > > Top snapshot: > > >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > 4:41pm up 2:43, 1 user, load average: 62,01, 58,01, 48,15 > 262 processes: 230 sleeping, 32 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped > CPU states: 15,4% user, 84,5% system, 0,0% nice, 0,0% idle > Mem: 1544452K av, 492688K used, 1051764K free, 62064K shrd, 36688K > buff > Swap: 2096472K av, 0K used, 2096472K free 171564K > cached > > > > PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND > 3075 orion 18 0 14584 14M 2928 R 1,3 0,9 0:02 java > 3073 orion 17 0 14584 14M 2928 R 1,2 0,9 0:01 java > 3074 postgres 15 0 21864 21M 21156 R 1,2 1,4 0:02 postmaster > 3093 orion 18 0 14584 14M 2928 R 1,2 0,9 0:01 java > 1710 orion 17 0 77860 75M 2976 S 1,1 4,9 0:27 java > 3000 root 17 0 1184 1184 836 R 1,1 0,0 0:06 top > 3076 postgres 17 0 21192 20M 20516 R 1,1 1,3 0:01 postmaster > 3095 postgres 16 0 21696 21M 20996 R 1,1 1,4 0:01 postmaster > 2463 postgres 11 0 45404 44M 43936 S 1,0 2,9 0:29 postmaster > 1509 orion 12 0 77812 75M 2976 R 0,9 4,9 0:28 java > 1511 orion 11 0 77812 75M 2976 R 0,9 4,9 0:29 java > 1585 orion 18 0 77860 75M 2976 R 0,9 4,9 0:25 java > 2240 orion 13 0 77900 75M 65396 S 0,9 4,9 0:23 java > 2652 orion 11 0 77900 75M 63556 S 0,9 4,9 0:13 java > 2734 orion 20 0 77900 75M 55948 R 0,9 4,9 0:09 java > 3031 postgres 20 0 33344 32M 32188 R 0,9 2,1 0:03 postmaster > 3126 postgres 13 0 27988 27M 27300 S 0,9 1,8 0:00 postmaster > 2173 orion 9 0 77900 75M 65396 S 0,8 4,9 0:18 java > 2182 orion 12 0 77900 75M 65396 S 0,8 4,9 0:21 java > 2184 orion 14 0 77900 75M 65396 S 0,8 4,9 0:22 java > 2484 orion 10 0 77900 75M 63556 S 0,8 4,9 0:17 java > 2505 orion 11 0 77900 75M 63556 S 0,8 4,9 0:11 java > 2687 orion 10 0 77900 75M 55948 S 0,8 4,9 0:11 java > 2886 postgres 14 0 28032 27M 26520 S 0,8 1,8 0:09 postmaster > 2959 postgres 16 0 33128 32M 31984 R 0,8 2,1 0:04 postmaster > > >----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > I was used to handle the load perfectly well and now its messy and i > have no clue why. > > > > I wonder why i have a system cpu state so high, leading to a very very > high load average. > > for this snapshot i started orion with no argument ( java -jar orion.jar) > > As for postgres ( max backend set to the default 32): > > tcpip_socket = true > > shared_buffers = 16384 > > sort_mem = 4096 > > wal_buffers = 2048 > > wal_files = 3 > > > > If someone has some ideas or tips to find out whats going on... > > Thx in advance > > Best regards > > > > >
