[DRBD-user] Sudden high CPU load

2011-05-17 Thread Richard Stockton
Hi drbd folks, We have been using DRBD with heartbeat for several years now. The load averages on our RedHat servers have almost always stayed below 1.0. Suddenly last week the loads jumped up to 12-14 on both servers. They go down at night, when the usage goes down, but by mid-day every busine

Re: [DRBD-user] Sudden high CPU load [SOLVED]

2011-05-18 Thread Richard Stockton
Hi Felix, Thanks for responding, answers (and resolution) below... At 12:20 AM 5/18/2011, Felix Frank wrote: On 05/18/2011 04:09 AM, Richard Stockton wrote: > Hi drbd folks, > > We have been using DRBD with heartbeat for several years now. > The load averages on our RedHat servers

Re: [DRBD-user] Sudden high CPU load [NOT! SOLVED]

2011-05-18 Thread Richard Stockton
anyone has any ideas or suggestions, we would appreciate hearing them. If there is any diagnostic tool that might help, please let us know that, too. Thanks. - Richard At 12:20 AM 5/18/2011, Felix Frank wrote: On 05/18/2011 04:09 AM, Richard Stockton wrote: > Hi drbd folks, > > We have b

Re: [DRBD-user] Sudden high CPU load [SOLVED]

2011-05-20 Thread Richard Stockton
Hi Felix, At 12:38 AM 5/19/2011, you wrote: On 05/18/2011 10:02 PM, Richard Stockton wrote: >> Is NFS mounted sync or async? > > NFS is mounted "sync" (NFS3 default, I believe). This is very bad. Do use async, it's not as asynchronous as the name implies (except i

[DRBD-user] Sudden system load

2011-05-26 Thread Richard Stockton
Thanks to those who helped on the first go-around of this issue. We have a better handle on the indicators, but still no solution. We use DRBD to handle our 8000 (or so) pop/imap accounts. These exist on 2 separate servers, each with 1/2 the alphabet, and each set to failover to the other if one

Re: [DRBD-user] Sudden system load

2011-06-08 Thread Richard Stockton
here, any help appreciated. Thanks. - Richard Best regards, Pascal. -Message d'origine- De : drbd-user-boun...@lists.linbit.com [mailto:drbd-user-boun...@lists.linbit.com] De la part de Richard Stockton Envoyé : vendredi 27 mai 2011 03:43 À : drbd-user@lists.linbit.com Objet : [

Re: [DRBD-user] Sudden system load [SOLVED!]

2011-06-20 Thread Richard Stockton
Our problem was a sudden system load that bogged down our DRBD servers for 13-14 hours daily. The problem turned out to be in the batteries on the RAID controllers. When the batteries are low and unable to fully charge, they force the RAID system into write-through mode instead of write-back mod