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



Larry,

I tried those and this is what I got:

[admin admin]$ ps faux | grep mail
root     10663  0.0  0.3  2984 1820 ?        S    09:04   0:00 sendmail:
q2/h2LH
[admin admin]$ ps faux | grep http
root       580  0.0  1.1  7704 5884 ?        S    07:25   0:01
/usr/sbin/httpd.a
root       604  0.0  1.7 13560 9152 ?        S    07:25   0:01
/usr/sbin/httpd -
httpd      662  0.3  2.6 17788 13808 ?       S    07:25   0:24  \_
/usr/sbin/htt
httpd      663  0.3  2.5 16816 12956 ?       S    07:25   0:27  \_
/usr/sbin/htt
httpd      664  0.3  2.4 16500 12640 ?       S    07:25   0:24  \_
/usr/sbin/htt
httpd      667  0.4  2.6 17520 13616 ?       S    07:26   0:34  \_
/usr/sbin/htt
httpd      668  0.4  2.7 18072 14212 ?       S    07:26   0:36  \_
/usr/sbin/htt
httpd      669  0.3  2.6 17832 13952 ?       S    07:26   0:25  \_
/usr/sbin/htt
httpd      670  0.2  2.3 16220 12364 ?       S    07:26   0:23  \_
/usr/sbin/htt
httpd      671  0.4  2.6 17708 13840 ?       S    07:26   0:33  \_
/usr/sbin/htt
httpd      672  0.3  2.6 17740 13880 ?       S    07:26   0:27  \_
/usr/sbin/htt
httpd      673  0.3  2.5 16956 13092 ?       S    07:26   0:27  \_
/usr/sbin/htt
httpd      759  0.3  2.5 17296 13436 ?       S    07:26   0:26  \_
/usr/sbin/htt
httpd      996  0.3  2.6 17364 13500 ?       S    07:26   0:27  \_
/usr/sbin/htt
httpd     1364  0.5  2.5 16964 13168 ?       S    07:26   0:40  \_
/usr/sbin/htt
httpd     1589  0.3  2.5 16808 12948 ?       S    07:28   0:29  \_
/usr/sbin/htt
httpd     1645  0.3  2.4 16596 12736 ?       S    07:28   0:28  \_
/usr/sbin/htt
httpd     1691  0.3  2.6 17472 13624 ?       S    07:29   0:28  \_
/usr/sbin/htt
httpd     1694  0.3  2.4 16552 12692 ?       S    07:29   0:29  \_
/usr/sbin/htt
httpd     1695  0.3  2.5 16856 12996 ?       S    07:29   0:24  \_
/usr/sbin/htt
httpd     1739  0.3  2.3 15856 11992 ?       S    07:29   0:30  \_
/usr/sbin/htt
httpd     1741  0.4  2.6 17408 13548 ?       S    07:29   0:35  \_
/usr/sbin/htt
httpd     4056  0.3  2.4 16516 12660 ?       S    07:55   0:21  \_
/usr/sbin/htt
httpd     4375  0.3  2.4 16664 12804 ?       S    07:58   0:21  \_
/usr/sbin/htt
httpd     5238  0.3  2.5 17236 13412 ?       S    08:03   0:19  \_
/usr/sbin/htt
httpd     6054  0.4  2.4 16660 12764 ?       S    08:11   0:23  \_
/usr/sbin/htt
httpd     6055  0.3  2.5 17124 13268 ?       S    08:11   0:20  \_
/usr/sbin/htt
httpd    11952  0.3  2.2 15492 11644 ?       S    09:31   0:02  \_
/usr/sbin/htt
httpd    11957  0.2  2.2 15272 11408 ?       S    09:31   0:01  \_
/usr/sbin/htt
httpd    12326  0.0  1.8 13676 9356 ?        S    09:37   0:00  \_
/usr/sbin/htt
httpd    12329  0.0  1.8 13712 9392 ?        S    09:37   0:00  \_
/usr/sbin/htt
httpd    12357  0.2  2.0 14516 10560 ?       S    09:38   0:00  \_
/usr/sbin/htt
httpd    12358  0.3  2.1 14928 10880 ?       S    09:38   0:00  \_
/usr/sbin/htt

Matt

-----Original Message-----
From: cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Larry Smith
Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 9:19 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:
> -----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 ???
>
> 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
>

 Hmmm, interesting, but what does TOP say about memory, swap, CPU (idle) and

so forth.  If you are saying "my RAQ4r decided to max out the CPU" then 
something has to show up either in the "ps fax" or top.  Top breaks down the

utilization figures into user, system, nice, idle.  Which one is "using" all

the cpu??  It may not be a "single" process, but may be the number of 
processes that a particular program is spawning.

EG:  
try "ps faux | grep mail" to see how many processes doing mail are running
try "ps faux | grep http" to see how many http processes are running

-- 
Larry Smith
SysAd ECSIS.NET
sysad@xxxxxxxxx

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