Re: [cobalt-users] HELP HELP HELP RAQ4r CPU slowly creeps up till server is un-usable

[Larry Smith <lesmith@xxxxxxxxx>]

INRE RE: [cobalt-users] HELP HELP HELP RAQ4r CPU slowly creeps up till server 
is un-usable:
>
> Hello,
>
> Alright this is a really weird issue and I am hoping that someone may have
> some insite on how to fix this- it has become to frustrating for words...
>
> What Happened:
> -Tuesday night around midnight my RAQ4r decided to max out the CPU
> rendering SMTP useless and web pretty much the same. Every since then I
> have had to pretty much reboot the server ever hour... After that the
> server usually takes an hour for the CPU to ramp up to a critical state.
>
> What I have done.
> - First I though it was the mirroring between my two drive (I have the
> latest kernel installed---slow, fixed with echo         ETC... command)
> that wasn't it..
> - Second I thought it was Tomkat- Removed it from my httpd.conf file.. It
> doesn't start-- Which is good-- cause it would   take forever to get the
> thing started.. I though that was eating my CPU... Nope! Wasn't it..
> - Third I have read every log file I can think of.. /var/log--> messages,
> secure, maillog, xferlog-- CD'd  to httpd read access, error logs and I
> have found nothing suspicious other that the usual CPU load to high,, POP
> login rejected cause Sendmail has shut it self off due to the 20% process
> limit (Which I have gone into the Sendmail.cf file  and upped it to 80 just
> get users mail to send,, ;-( This is not good and I know that but,, I am in
> a bad situation..
> - Fourth I have tailed all of the logs above, mainly the access log in
> httpd and watch the CPU usage- Hoping to find the ONE site that is killing
> my CPU.. But I have yet to find it.. I have also shut down the sites that I
> suspected- but this did not help either.. It's just a gradual process- that
> the naked eye's cannot see..
>
> If anyone has experienced this, or heard about IT through someone's second
> cousins grandpa's brothers best friend ;-)) and can tell me about it or how
> they fixed it-- Or another way to track it down IT WOULD BE SO GREATLY
> APPRECIATED!! I have put two day's into this problem and it's driving me
> nutz!
>
> Thank You,
>

Matt,

  How about running "top" on the system and watch which processes are 
"eating" the cpu ???


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Larry Smith
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