cpu usage way high

[Tom Callahan]

I'd check your NIC port settings, use mii-tool and make sure the ports
are set to 100Tx-FD. If they are set to HD, you may be experiencing long
wait times, causing cpu usage to go up.

Thanks,

Tom Callahan
TESSCO Technologies
(443)-506-6216
callahant at tessco.com

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Romeo Theriault wrote:

> Hi I'm running an fresh install Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 4 Update 
> 2 with all the latest patches. I've got it configured to be a 
> webserver for 5 different ip addresses. It only has one nic so I 
> bound the other ip addresses to that one nic, configured apache, 
> etc... This seems to be working ok. But my cpu usage for user is 
> around 68% and for sys around 28 % and my dhclient is constantly 
> around 3% of cpu but none of my nic bindings are configured with 
> dhcp. I've done a top with cpu usage and nothing seems to be using 
> this much cpu. What's going on?
>
> I was running this identical setup on Cent OS, with no problems what 
> so ever.
>
> Romeo
>