Re: High Load/Interrupts on Wheezy

2013-07-03 Thread Will Platnick
So since there seems to be a few of us having this issue, are there any Debian or linux kernel engineers out there who are willing to help? Is this the best place for that? On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 3:50 PM, David Mckisick wrote: > Same issue here exactly and have noticed this since upgrading to Wh

Re: High Load/Interrupts on Wheezy

2013-07-03 Thread David Mckisick
Same issue here exactly and have noticed this since upgrading to Wheezy. We have also delayed upgrading the rest of our servers until this gets fixed. On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 10:45 AM, Scott Ferguson < scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 04/07/13 00:30, Will Platnick wrote: > > More

Re: High Load/Interrupts on Wheezy

2013-07-03 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 04/07/13 00:30, Will Platnick wrote: > More troubleshooting steps: > > Built and installed latest 3.10 kernel, no change in interrupts > Built and installed latest 2.6.32 kernel, and I am back to Squeeze level > loads and no high timer, rescheduling, non-maskable or performance > interrupts are

Re: High Load/Interrupts on Wheezy

2013-07-03 Thread Will Platnick
More troubleshooting steps: Built and installed latest 3.10 kernel, no change in interrupts Built and installed latest 2.6.32 kernel, and I am back to Squeeze level loads and no high timer, rescheduling, non-maskable or performance interrupts are present. So, does anybody have any idea what chang

Re: High Load/Interrupts on Wheezy

2013-07-03 Thread Will Platnick
Something else I just noticed now that I'm on a screen high enough to show all of /proc/interrupts on one line:Non-maskable interrupts are happening on Wheezy whereas they didn't on Squeeze. Additionally, it seems Non-maskable interrupts and Performance monitoring are the same value all the time. -

Re: High Load/Interrupts on Wheezy

2013-07-03 Thread Will Platnick
I followed those. I got nothing. — Sent from Mailbox for iPhone On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 5:24 AM, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 08:54:06PM -0400, Will Platnick wrote: >> I am experiencing some issues with load after upgrading some of my Squeeze >> boxes to Wheezy. I have 7 app ser

Re: High Load/Interrupts on Wheezy

2013-07-03 Thread Darac Marjal
On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 08:54:06PM -0400, Will Platnick wrote: > I am experiencing some issues with load after upgrading some of my Squeeze > boxes to Wheezy. I have 7 app servers, all with identical hardware with > identical packages and code. I upgraded one of my boxes to wheezy, along with >

Re: high load but no cpu usage

2003-10-04 Thread Shri Shrikumar
On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 19:44, Rus Foster wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I seem to have a strange problem. I have a server which is showing a > > load average of around 1 but cpu usage of 0.6% over two cpus. > > This would imply I/O wait for me. What sort of disks does it have? Thats what I thought but thi

Re: high load but no cpu usage

2003-10-04 Thread Rus Foster
> Hi, > > I seem to have a strange problem. I have a server which is showing a > load average of around 1 but cpu usage of 0.6% over two cpus. This would imply I/O wait for me. What sort of disks does it have? > What bothers me is that load average used to stay under 0.16 previously > - nothing h

Re: high load average

2002-09-23 Thread Jack O'Quin
Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Is this normal? I don't seem to remember having ide performance issues like > > this before (this is a new install). > > > This is normal if dma is not enabled. > It isn't enabled by default in Debian. > To enable it install hdparm and then > run

Re: high load average

2002-09-23 Thread Quenten Griffith
Or just get hwtools it creates a basic init.d script where you put your hdparm flags Bijan Soleymani wrote: >>Is this normal? I don't seem to remember having ide performance issues like >>this before (this is a new install). >> >> >> >This is normal if dma is not enabled. >It isn't enable

Re: high load average

2002-09-23 Thread Bijan Soleymani
> Is this normal? I don't seem to remember having ide performance issues like > this before (this is a new install). > This is normal if dma is not enabled. It isn't enabled by default in Debian. To enable it install hdparm and then run hdparm -d1 /dev/hdx as root where x is either a,b,c,d depe

Re: high load average

2002-09-23 Thread nate
Jason Pepas said: > the other day I was moving several gigs of files from one ide drive to > another on the same ide chain (the secondary channel is broken) and my > load average went up to around 7 (no, not 0.07). The machine would > become unresponsive for several seconds at a time. This is

Re: high load average

2002-09-23 Thread Ramon Kagan
Have you checked your dma settings? hdparm/hwtools? Ramon Kagan York University, Computing and Network Services Unix Team - Intermediate System Administrator (416)736-2100 #20263 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I have not failed. I have just found 10,000 ways that don'

Re: High Load Average

2001-06-03 Thread Nate Amsden
"Jordi S. Bunster" wrote: > We JUST installed the server. I mean, there's nothing hand > compiled, except for Amavis. But it doesn't eat that much CPU amavis is VERY cpu intensive i run it on many systems. is there a lot of mail going through the system? is there a lot of big attachments? one of

Re: High Load Average

2001-06-03 Thread Christoph Simon
On Sun, 3 Jun 2001 23:18:41 -0300 (BRT) "Jordi S. Bunster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > you have a run away process and/or a memory leak > > > > ( amd and intel cpu behave slightly differently for > > ( the same code... > > Mmm .. speaking about internal programs, we only have some perl >

Re: High Load Average

2001-06-03 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 11:18:41PM -0300, Jordi S. Bunster wrote: > 91 processes: 89 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped > CPU states: 68.7% user, 31.2% system, 0.0% nice, 0.0% idle > Mem: 257856K av, 229104K used, 28752K free, 103600K shrd, > 73192K buff > Swap: 128484K av, 0K used,

Re: High Load Average

2001-06-03 Thread Petr \[Dingo\] Dvorak
On Sun, 3 Jun 2001, Jordi S. Bunster wrote: JSB> > you have a run away process and/or a memory leak JSB> > JSB> > ( amd and intel cpu behave slightly differently for JSB> > ( the same code... JSB> JSB> Mmm .. speaking about internal programs, we only have some perl JSB> scripts. Perl is the com

Re: High Load Average

2001-06-03 Thread Jordi S. Bunster
> you have a run away process and/or a memory leak > > ( amd and intel cpu behave slightly differently for > ( the same code... Mmm .. speaking about internal programs, we only have some perl scripts. Perl is the compiled one, right? > what apps is running??? We JUST installed the server. I me

Re: High Load Average

2001-06-03 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ay or you could have a hacker running an irc on your machine -- if the rest of your lan/machines is fine... than probably not c ya alvin On Sun, 3 Jun 2001, Alvin Oga wrote: > > hi ya jordi > > you have a run away process and/or a memory leak > > ( amd and intel cpu behave slightly d

Re: High Load Average

2001-06-03 Thread Christoph Simon
On Sun, 3 Jun 2001 22:51:51 -0300 (BRT) "Jordi S. Bunster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just a question: Is there any reason in particular for a Debian > Box keep its load average always over 6? Not really. Did you try top to find out which processes are doing that? Maybe you where running a Net

Re: High Load Average

2001-06-03 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya jordi you have a run away process and/or a memory leak ( amd and intel cpu behave slightly differently for ( the same code... what apps is running??? top -i ps axuw c ya alvin On Sun, 3 Jun 2001, Jordi S. Bunster wrote: > > Just a question: Is there any reason in particular for a D

Re: High Load Average

2001-06-03 Thread Forrest English
what is running on it? have you checked top for processes? -- Forrest English http://truffula.net "When we have nothing left to give There will be no reason for us to live But when we have nothing left to lose You will have nothing left to use" -Fugazi On Sun, 3 Jun 2001, Jordi S. Bunster

Re: high load average

2001-03-09 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 03:25:24PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > The clarification is given in the O'Reilly citation. Runnable > processes, not waiting on other resources, I/O blocking excepted. Excellent - thanks! -- Linux will do for applications what the Internet did for networks.

Re: high load average

2001-03-09 Thread kmself
on Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 01:27:50AM -0600, Dave Sherohman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 10:55:10PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > on Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 11:21:07AM -0600, Dave Sherohman ([EMAIL > > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > You have the notation correct, but load ave

Re: high load average

2001-03-09 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 10:55:10PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > on Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 11:21:07AM -0600, Dave Sherohman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > You have the notation correct, but load average and CPU utilization are not > > directly related. Load average is the average number of

Re: high load average

2001-03-09 Thread kmself
on Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 11:21:07AM -0600, Dave Sherohman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 06:09:41PM +0100, Joris Lambrecht wrote: > > isn't 2.00 more like 2% ? It is US notation where . is a decimal separator. > > Not ? > > You have the notation correct, but load average and

Re: high load average

2001-03-09 Thread kmself
on Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 11:12:16PM -0500, MaD dUCK ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > [cc'ing this to PLUG because it seems interesting...] > > also sprach kmself@ix.netcom.com (on Mon, 05 Mar 2001 08:02:51PM -0800): > > It's not 200% loaded. There are two processes in the run queue. I'd do > > huh?

Re: high load average

2001-03-06 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 06:09:41PM +0100, Joris Lambrecht wrote: > isn't 2.00 more like 2% ? It is US notation where . is a decimal separator. > Not ? You have the notation correct, but load average and CPU utilization are not directly related. Load average is the average number of processes that

RE: high load average

2001-03-06 Thread Joris Lambrecht
Dear dUCK, isn't 2.00 more like 2% ? It is US notation where . is a decimal separator. Not ? -Original Message- From: MaD dUCK [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 3:38 AM To: debian users Subject: high load average someone explain this to me: albatross:~$ uname -a L

Re: high load average

2001-03-05 Thread MaD dUCK
[cc'ing this to PLUG because it seems interesting...] also sprach kmself@ix.netcom.com (on Mon, 05 Mar 2001 08:02:51PM -0800): > It's not 200% loaded. There are two processes in the run queue. I'd do huh? is that what 2.00 means? the average length of the run queue? that would explain it becau

Re: high load average

2001-03-05 Thread kmself
on Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 09:37:36PM -0500, MaD dUCK ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > someone explain this to me: > > albatross:~$ uname -a > Linux albatross 2.2.17 #2 Mon Sep 04 20:49:27 CET 2000 i586 unknown > > albatross:~$ uptime > 2:56am up 174 days, 5:50, 1 user, load average: 2.00, 2.05, 2

Re: high load average

2001-03-05 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Noah L. Meyerhans (on Mon, 05 Mar 2001 09:51:53PM -0500): > Load average is not an indication of how busy the CPU is. A busy CPU > can *cause* a high load average, but so can other stuff. good point. so i found two offending processes in state D: root 24520 0.0 0.9 1652 904 ?

Re: high load average

2001-03-05 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 09:37:36PM -0500, MaD dUCK wrote: > the load average displayed by uptime has been very consistently above > 2.00 and the output of ps aux has been pretty much the same for the > past two weeks. no hung jobs. no traffic. the server basically *isn't > being used*, especially n

Re: High load

2000-05-01 Thread Raghavendra Bhat
Suresh Kumar posts: > I have never seen load averages going above 2 > earlier with redhat installation. > On a similar setup while running Netscape ? Please install libc5 and libg++272 found in /oldlibs of the Debian 'slink' CD. ragOO, VU2RGU. Kochi, INDIA. Keeping the Air-Wa

RE: High load

2000-04-28 Thread Bryan Scaringe
Recent versions of netscape will slow a 16Mb system to a crawl. How does the system respond when you aren't running netscape? What window manager are you using? What else are you running at the time. Check you netscape memory cache size. I would be wiling to bet the problem lies in the (lack o

Re: high load but idle CPU

1999-05-27 Thread Joey Hess
George Bonser wrote: > Any process involved with heavy net activity in an SMP system with 2.2.3 > will do this. I had problems with web servers doing it. 2.2.9 seems OK. > 2.2.6/7 were disasters. 2.2.5 seemed to work, though. Hm, could you expand on that? I've been using 2.2.7 for a while, what pr

Re: high load but idle CPU

1999-05-27 Thread Max
* George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [05/26/99 18:59] wrote: > Do a ps -ax and see how many processes you have stuck in D state ;). Then > go and get 2.2.9 Yup, that explains it! I have 5 sxid processes in D state. Hmmmcould it have something to do with the fact that I installed arla 5 days ag