[K12OSN] cpu spikes killing me...
"Terrell Prudé, Jr."
microman at cmosnetworks.com
Fri Nov 5 01:25:57 UTC 2004
I suggest going into single-user mode on your server, cd to your /tmp
directory, and doing a rm -rf * on it. This should clear everything
out. I remember dealing with that before when the permissions on the
tmp files got messed up (I accidentally did a chown -R root:root tmp).
--TP
Huck wrote:
> ifconfig shows:
> [root at ltsp root]# ifconfig
> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:07:E9:40:1C:7A
> inet addr:192.168.0.254 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
> inet6 addr: fe80::207:e9ff:fe40:1c7a/64 Scope:Link
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:3835760 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:5042769 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
> RX bytes:646602617 (616.6 Mb) TX bytes:3067535778 (2925.4 Mb)
> Base address:0x2040 Memory:fea60000-fea80000
>
> eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:07:E9:40:1C:7B
> inet addr:10.1.3.35 Bcast:10.1.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0
> inet6 addr: fe80::207:e9ff:fe40:1c7b/64 Scope:Link
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:400098 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:406597 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:77622 txqueuelen:1000
> RX bytes:124336167 (118.5 Mb) TX bytes:261722407 (249.5 Mb)
> Base address:0x2000 Memory:fea80000-feaa0000
>
> nothing out of the ordinary...all packets looking good.
>
> dmesg I have no idea WHAT I'm looking at there..
>
> ahh...a quick grep of my 'testuser' in messages shows it started on Nov 2
> here is what it says...I don't understand WHAT it says though *blush*
>
> Nov 2 08:00:42 ltsp gconfd (huckda-9136): starting (version 2.6.0),
> pid 9136 user 'huckda'
> Nov 2 08:00:42 ltsp gconfd (huckda-9134): starting (version 2.6.0),
> pid 9134 user 'huckda'
> Nov 2 08:00:42 ltsp gconfd (huckda-9134): Failed to get lock for
> daemon, exiting: Failed to lock '/tmp/gconfd-huckda/lock/ior':
> probably another process has
> the lock, or your operating system has NFS file locking misconfigured
> (Resource temporarily unavailable)
> Nov 2 08:00:42 ltsp gconfd (huckda-9136): Resolved address
> "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory" to a read-only config
> source at position 0
> Nov 2 08:00:42 ltsp gconfd (huckda-9136): Resolved address
> "xml:readwrite:/home/huckda/.gconf" to a writable config source at
> position 1
> Nov 2 08:00:42 ltsp gconfd (huckda-9136): Resolved address
> "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults" to a read-only config
> source at position 2
> Nov 2 14:44:51 ltsp gconfd (huckda-9136): Received signal 15,
> shutting down cleanly
> Nov 2 14:44:51 ltsp gconfd (huckda-9136): Exiting
>
> the above is listed for every thin client login since Nov 2 when
> 'whatever' happened caused this...
>
> --Huck
>
> Eric Harrison wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 14:19 -0800, Huck wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Preface--- K12LTSP 4.1.0
>>> IceWM
>>>
>>> Logins which used to take seconds(3 days ago), now take minutes...
>>> and load firefox or open office or even a terminal now takes 30+
>>> seconds...
>>>
>>
>>
>> Any time I see delays that are divisible by 30 seconds (30s, 1min,
>> etc), the very first thing I check is that the DNS is functioning
>> properly.
>>
>> After that, I'd just start combing the logs for likely errors. Run
>> "dmesg",
>> look at /var/log/messages, run "ifconfig". Look for SCSI/disc/network
>> errors in particular.
>>
>>
>> -Eric
>>
>>
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