[Babase] Odd load on papio

Karl O. Pinc kop at meme.com
Mon Feb 20 13:20:10 EST 2006


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Subject:	Odd load on papio
Date:	02/20/2006 12:13:13 PM
From:	"Karl O. Pinc" <kop at meme.com>
To:	thm at duke.edu
Cc:	babase at eeblistserv.princton.edu

Hunter,

Something odd is going on on papio, maybe with one of your cron jobs?
The load average is 15, but nothing is using cpu or disk.
(I believe typing response is a little sluggish but that could
be network.)

[kop at papio conversion]$ uptime
  13:09:30  up 6 days, 22:33,  3 users,  load average: 15.00, 15.00,  
14.96
[kop at papio conversion]$ ps -A r
   PID TTY      STAT   TIME COMMAND
  3034 ?        D      0:00 crond
19156 ?        D      0:09 cupsd
31812 ?        D      0:00 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/yum -R 120 -e 0 -d  
0 -y
upda  631 ?        D      0:08 sshd: root at notty
   803 ?        D      0:00 sshd: unknown [priv]
   865 ?        D      0:00 CROND
  2319 ?        D      0:00 sshd: root [priv]
  2337 ?        D      0:00 sshd: root [priv]
  2367 ?        D      0:00 sshd: root [priv]
  2371 ?        D      0:00 sshd: root [priv]
  2424 ?        D      0:00 sshd: root [priv]
  2621 ?        D      0:00 sshd: unknown [priv]
  2698 ?        D      0:00 sshd: root [priv]
  2822 ?        D      0:00 sshd: root [priv]
12735 ?        D      0:00 sshd: root [priv]
28769 pts/0    R      0:00 ps -A r
[kop at papio conversion]$ vmstat 5
procs                      memory      swap          io      
system         cpu
  r  b   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   so    bi    bo   in    cs us  
sy id wa
  0  0 200052  19980  40828 1589748    0    0     5    13    0    22   
0  0 27
0
  0  0 200052  19976  40828 1589748    0    0     0     8  114    18   
0  0 100
0 0  0 200052  19976  40828 1589748    0    0     0    13  119    18   
0  0 100
0 0  0 200052  19976  40828 1589748    0    0     0     0  112    18   
0  0 100
0 0  0 200052  19976  40828 1589748    0    0     0     0  115    18   
0  0 100
0


Karl <kop at meme.com>
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