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

["Matt" <mattm@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, it my last email to the list I stated that I did this-

"Also, I forgot to mention that I have been watching TOP and have found no
one process that is using more than 1% or 1.0 of the CPU. Oh,, and I have
been using the command ps -aux to try and find a runaway process that way
and it pretty much showed me the same thing as TOP."

How about something else?

Thank You,

Matt

-----Original Message-----
From: cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Larry Smith
Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 7:25 AM
To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] HELP HELP HELP RAQ4r CPU slowly creeps up till
server is un-usable


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 ???


-- 
Larry Smith
SysAd ECSIS.NET
sysad@xxxxxxxxx

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