Re: Strange load issue with 2.4.17

2014-10-14 Thread Michael Menge
Hi, Quoting Sebastian Hagedorn haged...@uni-koeln.de: --On 13. Oktober 2014 17:39:23 +0200 Simon Matter simon.mat...@invoca.ch wrote: --On 13. Oktober 2014 17:35:25 +0200 Simon Matter simon.mat...@invoca.ch wrote: Hi, for the last week we have seen strange load issues on our Cyrus

Re: Strange load issue with 2.4.17

2014-10-14 Thread lst_hoe02
Hello, I'm not a Cyrus expert, but to my knowledge high %sys loads point to CPU time spent in kernel space for doing things. One common reason could be slow/overloaded I/O but this would be noticed at the %wait at least as long as there is progress with I/O at all. So from my point of

Re: Strange load issue with 2.4.17

2014-10-13 Thread Geoff Winkless
Apologies if I'm misreading, but that bug suggests many processes are created over a period of time. In contrast your grab shows the number of processes hasn't grown but the load has grown exponentially. I'd say it's not the same bug. The grab shows system CPU staying around the same, contrary

Re: Strange load issue with 2.4.17

2014-10-13 Thread Sebastian Hagedorn
Thanks for your reply. I agree that it doesn't really look like bug 3744. System CPU *does* increase when the load starts to spike. It only goes to about 20 percent, but it's still a notable increase. Most of the system *appears* to be idle, but interactively you have to wait for each

Re: Strange load issue with 2.4.17

2014-10-13 Thread Simon Matter
Hi, for the last week we have seen strange load issues on our Cyrus server. All of a sudden the load increases to several thousands, user CPU goes down to basically zero, system CPU spikes. In the past we've had trouble with poor I/O performance, but that went along with an increase in Wait

Re: Strange load issue with 2.4.17

2014-10-13 Thread Sebastian Hagedorn
--On 13. Oktober 2014 17:35:25 +0200 Simon Matter simon.mat...@invoca.ch wrote: Hi, for the last week we have seen strange load issues on our Cyrus server. All of a sudden the load increases to several thousands, user CPU goes down to basically zero, system CPU spikes. In the past we've had

Re: Strange load issue with 2.4.17

2014-10-13 Thread Simon Matter
--On 13. Oktober 2014 17:35:25 +0200 Simon Matter simon.mat...@invoca.ch wrote: Hi, for the last week we have seen strange load issues on our Cyrus server. All of a sudden the load increases to several thousands, user CPU goes down to basically zero, system CPU spikes. In the past we've

Re: Strange load issue with 2.4.17

2014-10-13 Thread Sebastian Hagedorn
--On 13. Oktober 2014 17:39:23 +0200 Simon Matter simon.mat...@invoca.ch wrote: --On 13. Oktober 2014 17:35:25 +0200 Simon Matter simon.mat...@invoca.ch wrote: Hi, for the last week we have seen strange load issues on our Cyrus server. All of a sudden the load increases to several