Re: [cobalt-users] RAQ4 slowing down with high processor load.

["Neil James" <ned@xxxxxxxx>]

On 4 Feb 2004 at 8:11, Lauchlin wrote:

> > 
> Ok to fix this you need to modify system files so only do it if you 
> know you can fix anything that breaks.  Remember it is a good idea to 
> make copies of any files you modify so you can just copy them back in 
> later if all hell breaks loose.

Ooer - that's me sweating already then :)  I only learned about top last weekend which let me find 
out what the problem was in the first place. I'll make sure I have my trusty copy of 'Linux 
sysadmin unleashed' to hand.

> 
> This hack will totaly kill the statistics in the admin area of the 
> cobalt...but who cares...they are crap anyway.

Is this the one that gives the dodgy graphics of how much bandwidth each service/domain has 
used?  I can live without that - in any case I have webalizer installed for access stats.

> 
> The brute force way to stop this is to stop analog (which is called 
> from split_logs, which is in turn called from the apache stanza of the 
> logrotate, which is in turn called from CRON) from running as that is 
> what is taking up all the CPU cycles.

Would it be easier to delete the existing log files? I don't mind losing the access data. Perhaps 
then the whole thing would run OK in the RAM we have? After all, it's been running OK up to 
now. If so - then exactly which log files are we talking about?

I really appreciate your help with this - thanks very much for your time.

Neil


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