Re: [cobalt-users] high load in RAQ3i

["kajan" <kajan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, kajan wrote:
>
> > Thanks Zarrir for your clarification. The above-mentioned problem is
started
> > around the time NIMDA came in. Did anybody noticed such a high load
(around
> > 3 average in the office hours) after NIMDA.
>
> Not that high, but i saw about 2.5 on a raq2....
> (Getting 2-5 hits/second for a while , poor thing)
>
> Actualy, i'm kinda impressed how well a raq2 did , considering, heck of a
> way to do a load test tho -/
>
> in.qpopper is a little piggish by the way in general, having a large
> number of users will make it worse, disk issues are possible, but unlikely
> for a load average of just 3, i'd guess you are just seeing cumulative
> effects of several things at once...(How much free ram do you have left?)

Thanks for the comment. I have around 170MB free as shown in the TOP command
result below:

  2:36pm  up 1 day, 12:53,  1 user,  load average: 2.64, 4.12, 4.92
61 processes: 54 sleeping, 7 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 93.1% user,  6.8% system,  0.0% nice,  0.0% idle
Mem:  517188K av, 345788K used, 171400K free, 140528K shrd, 131724K buff
Swap: 131536K av,    912K used, 130624K free                149004K cached

  PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT  LIB %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
17490 root      20   0  1124 1124   704 R       0 23.5  0.2   0:01
in.qpopper
17491 norachai  12   0   820  820   636 R       0 15.5  0.1   0:00
in.qpopper
17492 wenong    17   0   824  824   640 R       0 10.5  0.1   0:00
in.qpopper
17493 root      20   0   980  980   720 R       0  6.6  0.1   0:00
in.qpopper

Pl. note high load average & in.qpopper cpu utilisation.
I have 60 sites & around 1000 e-mail accounts & 3 web site hosted in the
server.

Regards

Kajan


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