Re: [cobalt-users] to many processes raq3

["Steven Werby" <steven-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

cars-sold.com <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> anybody give me a clue as too identifying the culprit in this read out below
> (raq3) - reboot and then watch it quickly grow without any real chance to
> investigate what might be happening before the servers down again.

There has to be more to your top output than what's below.  Instead of using "top",
post the output of "ps aux".

>  3:36pm  up 42 min,  1 user,  load average: 120.22, 107.51, 81.04

That's an extremely high load average.

> 162 processes: 156 sleeping, 6 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped

You only have 6 processes running, yet 156 sleeping.  That seems like an excessive #
of sleeping processes.

> CPU states:  0.8% user,  4.1% system,  0.0% nice, 95.0% idle

Hmm.  Nothing's happening.  Your server is lightly loaded.

> Mem:   30716K av,  30160K used,    556K free,  27444K shrd,    652K buff
> Swap: 131536K av, 110612K used,  20924K free                 10244K cached

It looks like you have 32 MB of RAM.  I would *strongly recommend* adding more RAM.
I bet you've gotten a load of emails from your server telling you the same thing.
<grin>  It looks like you are using a lot of swap memory so your server is probably
being slowed reading/writing betweeen RAM and the HD b/c you don't have enough RAM.

Steven Werby {steven-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx}