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RE: [cobalt-users] HELP HELP HELP RAQ4r CPU slowly creeps up till server is un-usable
- Subject: RE: [cobalt-users] HELP HELP HELP RAQ4r CPU slowly creeps up till server is un-usable
- From: "Mike's List" <mikelist@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri Mar 21 09:54:43 2003
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Sun Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
Try netstat -vat and see your netstat.
- Mike
On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Matt wrote:
> 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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