Re: [cobalt-users] Overloaded Cobalt RAQ4r w/512MB Ram

[flash22@xxxxxxx]

On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, Brujah wrote:

> Any suggestions are welcome, please help me fix this :(

I Thing you are just asking this poor machine to do too much at once....
However, analog is the biggest problem, it's using half your memory, are
you making it process logs combined? Over a really long period? It'
susually not quite this piggish...

> Swap:  131448K av,  131448K used,       0K free                   42060K

>  6505 root       0   0  316M 256M 14836 D       0  0.5 50.6   3:51 analog

It's blocked waiting for swap, and using > 200 meg

The large number of processes that havn't even started yet tells me also
that your machine is avalanching...it's starting new processes faster than
it can finish them...

>  5438 root       0   0   140    0     0 SW      0  0.0  0.0   0:00 run-parts
>  5439 root       0   0   132    0     0 SW      0  0.0  0.0   0:00 logrotate

> 11551 root       0   0   620  620   516 S       0  0.0  0.1   0:00
> webazolver

What are all the webazolver's ? Why are they root processes? Why aren't
they running 'Nice' (for that matter you should probably be running mysql
at lower priority too;)

Last , but not least, you are running your own nameserver, which is using
another 90 meg of ram, and if it swapps out, everything that depends on
DNS services will hang waiting for it...

gsh