Re: [CentOS] load level?

2008-04-29 Thread James Gray
Jason Pyeron wrote: -Original Message- 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: -Original Message- Starting sendmail back up

Re: [CentOS] load level?

2008-04-25 Thread Kevin Faulkner
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

Re: [CentOS] load level?

2008-04-25 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
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

RE: [CentOS] load level?

2008-04-25 Thread Jason Pyeron
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin Faulkner Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 1:46 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] load level? Perhaps you could run iotop find out if there is a process chewing up your hard disks

Re: [CentOS] load level?

2008-04-25 Thread Milton Calnek
Jason Pyeron wrote: -Original Message- 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? -- Milton Calnek BSc, A/Slt(Ret.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 306-717-8737 --

RE: [CentOS] load level?

2008-04-25 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
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

RE: [CentOS] load level?

2008-04-25 Thread Paul Heinlein
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,

RE: [CentOS] load level?

2008-04-25 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
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

Re: [CentOS] load level?

2008-04-25 Thread Kevin Faulkner
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

RE: [CentOS] load level?

2008-04-25 Thread Jason Pyeron
-Original Message- 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: -Original Message- Starting sendmail back up puts

RE: [CentOS] load level?

2008-04-25 Thread Jason Pyeron
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ross S. W. Walker Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 4:05 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: RE: [CentOS] load level? Jason Pyeron wrote: Kevin Faulkner wrote: Perhaps you could run iotop find

Re: [CentOS] load level?

2008-04-25 Thread Les Mikesell
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? -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED]