Re: [cobalt-users] RaQ4 - CPU overload

[Fabrice Prémel <fabrice@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>CPU states:  4.1% user,  3.0% system,  0.2% nice,  7.3% idle

Your top seems broken.

[snip top's output]

You don't seem to have a process that take all cpu ... at the time 
you took the screenshot. You might want to wait for your machine to 
be overloaded before running top. You might also want to use the "-S" 
flag.

As there is no mad process, you might suspect :
some cpu-hungry script
some daemon overload (sendmail, apache)

You will really need to track down where the problem comes from (this 
might include checking your logs for anormal activity). Someone 
suggested to write a script that will check /proc/loadavg. It indeed 
is a very good advice, as it should help you identify _what_ is 
creating your problems.

So, you need to dig further in order for us to help you.

Hope that helps,

Fabrice Prémel.