High load on FC 3???

[Eliah Kagan]

Alexander Apprich wrote:

> 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
>