Re: [gentoo-user] load too high
On Monday 11 February 2008, James wrote: Hello, One of the workstations (amd64 2gig ram) has a load that never drops below 1.0, as seen by top. Looking at a ps nothing stands out. I did notice that 'X' is at the top of the list, even when the machine is quiescent (nobody doing anything). Suspiciaous. Clearly I have a run away or hidden process using resources. Although all my system run kde 3.5.8 only one shows this problem. None of my other Gentoo system suffer this fate. Any ideas on finding the culprit(proccess)? James What processes have the most on cpu time as reported by a 'ps ax' ? --James -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] load too high
Am Mittwoch, 13. Februar 2008 schrieb ext James: I did not try this. what's the option to boot into single user mode? No need to boot, just telinit 1 from a running system. And later switch back to normal with telinit 3. HTH... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068 111 Capgemini Deutschland | Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wanheimerstraße 68 | Web: http://www.capgemini.com D-40468 Düsseldorf | ICQ#: 110037733 GPG Public Key C2E467BB | Keyserver: www.keyserver.net signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] load too high
Dale wrote: 443-653-1569 wrote: On 23:27 Mon 11 Feb , Miguel Peña Gomez wrote: atop 3 filter by p WOW!!, this atop program is great, one of the best diagnostic tools I've seen. Why haven't I heard more about it? Bill Roberts What package provides that command? Dale :-) :-) Never mind. I just needed my glasses. I thought it was _S_top not _A_top. :/ Dale :-) :-) -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] load too high
443-653-1569 wrote: On 23:27 Mon 11 Feb , Miguel Peña Gomez wrote: atop 3 filter by p WOW!!, this atop program is great, one of the best diagnostic tools I've seen. Why haven't I heard more about it? Bill Roberts What package provides that command? Dale :-) :-) -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] load too high
On 23:27 Mon 11 Feb , Miguel Peña Gomez wrote: atop 3 filter by p El lun, 11-02-2008 a las 19:49 +, James escribió: Hello, One of the workstations (amd64 2gig ram) has a load that never drops below 1.0, as seen by top. Looking at a ps nothing stands out. I did notice that 'X' is at the top of the list, even when the machine is quiescent (nobody doing anything). Suspiciaous. Clearly I have a run away or hidden process using resources. Although all my system run kde 3.5.8 only one shows this problem. None of my other Gentoo system suffer this fate. Any ideas on finding the culprit(proccess)? WOW!!, this atop program is great, one of the best diagnostic tools I've seen. Why haven't I heard more about it? Bill Roberts pgpRV7b3I3MTh.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] load too high
On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 07:55 +0100, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Mittwoch, 13. Februar 2008 schrieb ext James: I did not try this. what's the option to boot into single user mode? No need to boot, just telinit 1 from a running system. And later switch back to normal with telinit 3. Just to show some alternatives: rc single / rc default useful if you use other runlevels, for example nonetwork or boot with kernel parameter single signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
[gentoo-user] load too high
Hello, One of the workstations (amd64 2gig ram) has a load that never drops below 1.0, as seen by top. Looking at a ps nothing stands out. I did notice that 'X' is at the top of the list, even when the machine is quiescent (nobody doing anything). Suspiciaous. Clearly I have a run away or hidden process using resources. Although all my system run kde 3.5.8 only one shows this problem. None of my other Gentoo system suffer this fate. Any ideas on finding the culprit(proccess)? James -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] load too high
On Monday 11 February 2008, James wrote: Hello, One of the workstations (amd64 2gig ram) has a load that never drops below 1.0, as seen by top. Looking at a ps nothing stands out. I did notice that 'X' is at the top of the list, even when the machine is quiescent (nobody doing anything). Suspiciaous. Clearly I have a run away or hidden process using resources. Although all my system run kde 3.5.8 only one shows this problem. None of my other Gentoo system suffer this fate. Any ideas on finding the culprit(proccess)? First thing to understand is exactly what the system load is. Maybe you already know this, but I'll post it anyway for the benefit of everyone else reading. Load is defined as the number of processes waiting for cpu time averaged over a certain time period. top and uptime measure this in three periods - 1 minute, 5 minutes and 15 minutes. A process can be waiting for cpu time because it is blocked - waiting for some I/O to complete. Therefore it's easy to get a high load and low cpu utilization. I find this in fact to be the most common reason (!) vmstat is your friend here. It's all in the man page, so use it and narrow down the process that's blocking. Maybe you have a threading race condition or similar. Also look into a hardware difference between this machine and the others, and differences in the kernel config and loaded modules. If all this reveals nothing, then maybe you do have a suspicious problem. In which case, post back real quick :-) -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] load too high
atop 3 filter by p El lun, 11-02-2008 a las 19:49 +, James escribió: Hello, One of the workstations (amd64 2gig ram) has a load that never drops below 1.0, as seen by top. Looking at a ps nothing stands out. I did notice that 'X' is at the top of the list, even when the machine is quiescent (nobody doing anything). Suspiciaous. Clearly I have a run away or hidden process using resources. Although all my system run kde 3.5.8 only one shows this problem. None of my other Gentoo system suffer this fate. Any ideas on finding the culprit(proccess)? James -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
