Re: [cobalt-users] Load avarage

["Robin Vley" <rvley@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 31 Dec 2001 09:23:47 -0500, cbtrussell wrote:

>I don't have a good explanation for you, but I've seen the EXACT same thing.
>Particularly after a rough shutdown like a power failure. I don't know why
>it does it, but I always wind up rebooting the machine through a normal
>restart and the problem goes away. Usually, since the machine otherwise

Yes, I had the same. I looked into TOP for a while, and (before finding
out that it was totally normal for httpd) saw <defunct processes of
Apache. I figured that it was time for a reboot (I had some other probs
as well). After that everything works perfect again!

>midnight, then restart to minimize the disruption to my customers. Sometimes
>it takes an additional restart or 2 (!!) to get things settled down. Of

Yes, the funny thing was that it worked perfectly, even no slower
response or whatever.

>FYI, an excellent tool for monitoring load average is MRTG, it can be
>configured to show you graphs for load average (among other things) over the
>past 24 hrs, week, month, and year. Great tool for keeping tabs on past
>performance.

How do you think I found out? :)) I monitor my RAQ with that tool, for
a large part that is. It's perfect is checking out the most vital
things.

>http://shack.pointclark.net/load.html

Very good and VERY easy to install package!


Have a good year end all!


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