Re: [cobalt-users] CPU overloaded message

["wcstaff" <wcstaff@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

We had a similar problem on one of our raq 4s and it turned out to be a an
egg bot script gone wild. We shut down the bots and rebooted the server and
it never came back. Also, see what scripts your users have set up and run
"top" to see if you have any progs running that you don't know about.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Fragga" <fragga@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 11:25 AM
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] CPU overloaded message


> 5.35 means your cpu is doing as much work as 5 processors and is
performing
> badly as a result. so if you have only one processor then you are in
trouble
> and somethings either spiralled out of control or some bad code somewhere.
>
> if you only have one processor your value should stay under 0.99, if you
> have 2 it should stay under 1.99 etc etc.
>
> i got a cobalt up to about 135.00 once running about 200 endless loops.
not
> much happened though. just everythign took an age as you would expect. i
> think it rebooted and was fine again.
>
> fragga
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <jale@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Cobalt Users List" <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 9:59 AM
> Subject: [cobalt-users] CPU overloaded message
>
>
> > First time I ever got one of these on my RAQ3i
> >
> > An admin email:
> > Over the past fifteen minutes, the CPU has been heavily loaded.
> > This will result in noticible performace loss. Consider moving some of
the
> > services to other Cobalt servers, or reduce the complexity of the CGI
> > scripts running on the Cobalt server itself.
> > 1 minute load average: 4.85
> > 5 minute load average: 5.12
> > 15 minute load average: 5.19
> > ------------------------
> > In the GUI
> >
> > Over the past fifteen minutes, the CPU has been heavily loaded.
> > 15 minute CPU load average is 5.35
> >
> > ------------------
> > What is the 5.35 - is that a % ?? If it is, isn't that quite small,
maybe
> > just more than *normal* for us?
> >
> > I'm just going to wait and see if it clears in 15 minutes, but any
> comments
> > on this?
> >
> > I wonder of Cobalt knows about their mipsellings?
> > noticible   - should be noticeable
> > performace - should be performance
> >
> > Thanks!!
> > Jale
> >
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