High load on FC 3???
Alexander Apprich
a.apprich at science-computing.de
Tue Mar 1 12:52:03 UTC 2005
Roger Grosswiler wrote:
>>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
>>
>
> Yes, without amavis it' quite faster, but i don't want to loose virual & spam checking....*hmmm* gonna perhaps looking
> once again in amavis' config.
I would recommend uninstalling amavis completely and reinstall it. (Make
sure everything gets removed, and you start with a clean configfile).
I've seen applications getting weired on linux for no reason. After
removing/ reinstalling them everything was fine again.
>
> Thanks anyway
>
> p.s. how's life?
>
> Roger
>
Alex
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