[cobalt-users] FW: so many processes - raq3!!

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Hi

anyone any idea whats happening on my raq3? it spirals up to 140 processes
with 139 sleeping and average load over 100!! but shows cpu at 88% idle and
98% idle (read out below).

could it be a cgi forking off httpd processes?? because if i do a process
check using ps auxw there is only a few processes listed and none to cgi's
etc just a couple to httpd - so don't even know what to kill!!

Any help appreciated

Gary

3:05am up 1:15, 1 user, load average: 107.19, 92.83, 65.44
159 processes: 152 sleeping, 2 running, 5 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 7.3% user, 3.8% system, 0.0% nice, 88.8% idle
Mem: 30716K av, 30140K used, 576K free, 26936K shrd, 652K buff
Swap: 131536K av, 104588K used, 26948K free 11708K cached

PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT LIB %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
2841 root 10 0 560 516 328 R 0 2.8 1.6 0:38 top
4822 httpd 3 0 5960 392 188 D 0 0.5 1.2 0:00 httpd
4220 httpd 0 0 5796 224 208 D 0 0.1 0.7 0:00 httpd
4629 httpd 0 0 5832 180 132 D 0 0.1 0.5 0:00 httpd
4756 httpd 0 0 5972 364 256 D 0 0.1 1.1 0:00 httpd
5209 httpd 1 0 5568 156 28 D 0 0.1 0.5 0:00 httpd
5219 httpd 1 0 5804 64 36 D 0 0.1 0.2 0:00 httpd
5259 root 1 0 544 544 456 D 0 0.1 1.7 0:00 lcd-showip
1832 root 0 0 148 60 56 D 0 0.0 0.1 0:01 syslogd
1891 root 1 0 80 0 0 DW 0 0.0 0.0 0:00 inetd
1920 root 0 0 1320 400 332 D 0 0.0 1.3 0:04 named
3079 root 0 0 3600 248 164 D 0 0.0 0.8 0:04 httpd
3096 root 0 0 3652 312 224 D 0 0.0 1.0 0:01 httpd
4185 httpd 0 0 5956 392 276 D 0 0.0 1.2 0:00 httpd
4214 httpd 0 0 5796 32 28 D 0 0.0 0.1 0:00 httpd
4215 httpd 0 0 5812 92 80 D 0 0.0 0.2 0:00 httpd
4223 httpd 0 0 5928 356 236 D 0 0.0 1.1 0:00 httpd