High load on FC 3???
Alexander Apprich
a.apprich at science-computing.de
Tue Mar 1 10:50:56 UTC 2005
Hi Roger,
Roger Grosswiler wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I have a Web- & Mailserver running, the responsetimes even let me drink several coffees, if i request my Mails via
> squirrelmail.
>
> My Hardware: HP Netserver P3/886 mhz, 128 mb ram
>
> Most consumpting processes: apache, amavisd-new (including virual check), spamd, postfix, cyrus, mysql...see list below
>
> top - 09:51:20 up 4 days, 14:54, 1 user, load average: 4.99, 2.77, 1.85
> Tasks: 104 total, 1 running, 103 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
> Cpu(s): 1.2% us, 0.6% sy, 0.0% ni, 0.0% id, 98.1% wa, 0.1% hi, 0.0% si
> Mem: 126288k total, 124124k used, 2164k free, 612k buffers
> Swap: 262136k total, 132232k used, 129904k free, 15156k cached
>
> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
> 21266 apache 15 0 27700 9.8m 3632 D 1.0 7.9 0:18.49 httpd
> 29426 amavis 17 0 42644 20m 2416 D 1.0 16.9 0:03.68 amavisd
> 29783 root 16 0 2888 892 696 R 0.7 0.7 0:05.72 top
> 5396 root 15 0 15232 1564 1104 S 0.3 1.2 23:06.53 X
> 29433 amavis 17 0 43036 20m 2500 D 0.3 16.9 0:03.06 amavisd
> 29855 cyrus 16 0 29768 2120 1828 D 0.3 1.7 0:00.04 imapd
>
> ...look at the load average ;-)
>
> i already forked most apps from 8 to 5 back to 3 forks max to save ressources. but i get the impression, that it is
> just one process, that somehow is just misconfigured...do you have any hints for me?
have you tried to (temp.) disable amavisd to see if it works better
then?
>
> btw. i would be very interessted, what the 3 figures on tload effective mean :-)
>
load averages for the past 1, 5, and 15 minutes.
> Roger
>
Alex
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