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

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 a

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

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 enabled by

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 hdparm -d1

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

2001-06-03 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

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

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

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 mean,

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 compiled one,

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 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 scripts. Perl

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 my

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? is

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 CPU

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 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 average

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

2001-03-06 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

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

2001-03-05 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 not

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 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, 2.01

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