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

["SteelHead" <bill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

check mem and partition useage as well.. you could have a swap problem or a
partition full.
bill
----- Original Message -----
From: "Matt" <mattm@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 7:15 AM
Subject: RE: [cobalt-users] HELP HELP HELP RAQ4r CPU slowly creeps up till
server is un-usable


> Does anyone else have any insight into this?
>
> Thank You,
>
> Matt
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Matt
> Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 8:09 PM
> To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [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
>
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