RE: [cobalt-users] Re: [RaQ4] CPU has been heavily loaded

["Richard Sidlin" <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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>
>Hello.
>since two days ago i keep on recieving this e-mail:
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>Over the past fifteen minutes, the CPU has been heavily loaded.
>
>This will result in noticible performace loss.  Consider 
>moving some of the services to other Sun Cobalt servers, or 
>reduce the complexity of the CGI scripts running on the Sun 
>Cobalt server itself.
>
>1 minute load average: 11.49
>5 minute load average: 14.30
>15 minute load average: 9.37
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>I don't think i'm pushing the machine with nothing...
>how can i find out what is causing this ?
>
>thanks
>
I got this all of the time until I upgraded the qpopper and that both
speeded up the popping of mail and cut back the load on the machine
quite considerably. However, it may well be a runaway script. Type "top"
whilst logged in as root and see if there is anything hogging the
processor.



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