High Load and Low CPU & Memory

[George Magklaras]

That proc r surge below is a bit suspicious.  Somewhere where you have 
space, start the following script loop:

while true; do ps auxwww >> myproctrace.txt; sleep 0.3; echo "### next 
run" >>myproctrace.txt; done

The 0.3 sec is a bit of an overkill. This might slow down your system, 
but if you manage to run this during the time the system is 
unresponsive, you should be able to navigate from ps run to ps run using 
the "###" string and see what on earth span all these processes so 
quickly (Oracle?)

GM


Troy Knabe wrote:
> Yes.  143 in the r column

> 143  0      0 33371968 615864 4991000    0    0     0    20 1510 5516  
> 2  5 93  0  0


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George Magklaras BSc Hons MPhil
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Senior Computer Systems Engineer/UNIX-Linux Systems Administrator
EMBnet Technical Management Board
The Biotechnology Centre of Oslo,
University of Oslo
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