Jason Pyeron wrote:
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Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 3:56 PM
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Subject: Re: [CentOS] load level?
Jason Pyeron wrote:
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Starting sendmail back up
I have a server holding a 2.5-4.0 load level consistently, where should I
start debugging it?
top - 13:32:01 up 167 days, 5:45, 6 users, load average: 2.87, 1.83, 1.51
Tasks: 111 total, 1 running, 110 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 0.0% us, 0.0% sy, 0.2% ni, 99.8% id, 0.0% wa,
Perhaps you could run iotop find out if there is a process chewing up
your hard disks. You aren't just limited to top, you can also use
vmstat and iostat in this situation.
Jason Pyeron wrote:
I have a server holding a 2.5-4.0 load level consistently, where should I
start debugging it?
top
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 1:46 PM, Kevin Faulkner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Perhaps you could run iotop find out if there is a process chewing up your
hard disks. You aren't just limited to top, you can also use vmstat and
iostat in this situation.
I also recommend dstat
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Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 1:46 PM
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Subject: Re: [CentOS] load level?
Perhaps you could run iotop find out if there is a process chewing up
your hard disks
Jason Pyeron wrote:
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Starting sendmail back up puts me in the high 1's to low 2's
Are you getting lots of large-ish emails? maybe sendmail is
working with some sort of anti-virus/spam tool?
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Jason Pyeron wrote:
Kevin Faulkner wrote:
Perhaps you could run iotop find out if there is a process chewing up
your hard disks. You aren't just limited to top, you can also use
vmstat and iostat in this situation.
After stoping httpd, sendmail and mysql:
# uptime
15:48:02 up
On Fri, 25 Apr 2008, Ross S. W. Walker wrote:
init(1)-+-atd(3370)
|-dbus-daemon-1(3392)
|-events/0(6)-+-aio/0(68)
| |-aio/1(69)
[...snip...]
|-xfs(3353)
|-xinetd(3215)
`-ypbind(14008)
Nice process tree, what generated it?
pstree,
Paul Heinlein wrote:
On Fri, 25 Apr 2008, Ross S. W. Walker wrote:
init(1)-+-atd(3370)
|-dbus-daemon-1(3392)
|-events/0(6)-+-aio/0(68)
| |-aio/1(69)
[...snip...]
|-xfs(3353)
|-xinetd(3215)
`-ypbind(14008)
Nice
Where do I get iostat / iotop?
Starting sendmail back up puts me in the high 1's to low 2's
My next course of action would be to start sendmail in debug level 0.1
and check some logs. Find out exactly sendmail is trying to do, maybe
lsof to see if it is getting stuck on something. I am
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Milton Calnek
Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 3:56 PM
To: CentOS mailing list
Subject: Re: [CentOS] load level?
Jason Pyeron wrote:
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Starting sendmail back up puts
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Ross S. W. Walker
Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 4:05 PM
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Subject: RE: [CentOS] load level?
Jason Pyeron wrote:
Kevin Faulkner wrote:
Perhaps you could run iotop find
Jason Pyeron wrote:
Starting sendmail back up puts me in the high 1's to low 2's
Nope it is behind a firewall, no port 25 access.
mailq is 55k (logwatch)
Does the output of the mailq command look like stuff you expect to be
sending?
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Les Mikesell
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