RE: [cobalt-users] high CPU load (idle CPU) ???

[Rik Thomas <rikt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 25 Sep 2001, Adam Knowles wrote:

> Hi,
>
> After reading this msg I ran 'top' on my Raq4i. The Mem overview shows:
>
> 4:52pm  up 4 days,  7:07,  1 user,  load average: 0.09, 0.07, 0.01
> 74 processes: 73 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
> CPU states:  0.1% user,  1.1% system,  0.0% nice, 98.6% idle
> Mem:   127860K av,  123460K used,    4400K free,   61752K shrd,    2668K
> buff
> Swap:  131532K av,   25392K used,  106140K free                   16820K
> cached
>
> I'm currently using up about 9gb/month in bandwidth. Would any of the
> above worry an experienced sysadmin (which I'm not!) ?  Should I put
> more memory in?
>
> .. speaking of which, what would be a good book(s) to get on how to do
> medium->advanced stuff with Raq's from the shell?
>

Nothing above is very troubling, more memory is always good though.  It
will definitely speed things up when instead of having to read from swap.

When it hits a high load do a ps auxw and let me know what it says.  There
may be some cgi's that are stopping gracefully, I have also seen hung pops
and ftp sessions cause this as well.

Runnin Linux is a very good book to have.  There is nothing specific to
Cobalts that I am aware of.


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