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Old 08-06-2010, 01:49 PM   #1
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High Load Averages on my Forum- whostmgr2 - top ./top


Hey guys I will initially admit that I do NOT know lunux. My forum uses it though and up until now I have never had an issue.

About 4 days ago after heavy traffic the forum kept crashing. Load averages were up and cpu usage for whostmgr2 - top ./top was high.

Traffic is back down yet the forum keeps crashing.

I keep restarting Apache, this helps for about 5 minutes and then the forum will crash again. Ive set my forum load averages to put the forum on standby if they get too high but its just a temporary fix.

Could someone maybe help?

Further Info:
Time: Thu Aug 5 21:35:14 2010 +0100
1 Min Load Avg: 22.18
5 Min Load Avg: 7.09
15 Min Load Avg: 2.99
Running/Total Processes: 3/449

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Old 08-06-2010, 06:24 PM   #2
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Hi, welcome to LQ!

You may want to check in top which individual process
is gobbling up CPU, causing the load.



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Old 08-06-2010, 06:42 PM   #3
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Define "keeps crashing".
Could be an unclean filesystem - could be lots of things. When the loadavg is "high" , run the following from a terminal, and post the topsave.txt it creates
Code:
top -b -n 1 | awk '{if (NR <=7) print; else if ($8 == "D") {print; count++} } END {print "Total status D: "count}' > topsave.txt
 
Old 08-07-2010, 07:30 PM   #4
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My forum isn't currently down but here is the info to start the help :

Quote:
top - 02:29:55 up 38 min, 1 user, load average: 0.16, 0.45, 0.87
Tasks: 238 total, 1 running, 237 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 0.2%us, 0.6%sy, 2.2%ni, 93.6%id, 0.9%wa, 0.8%hi, 1.6%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 8168584k total, 3109048k used, 5059536k free, 44280k buffers
Swap: 4192924k total, 0k used, 4192924k free, 2123332k cached


1760 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.3 0.0 0:00.63 kjournald
25195 nobody 19 4 156m 26m 11m S 0.3 0.3 0:00.21 httpd
25203 nobody 19 4 156m 25m 10m S 0.3 0.3 0:00.43 httpd
25221 nobody 19 4 156m 25m 10m S 0.3 0.3 0:00.25 httpd
25528 nobody 19 4 156m 25m 10m S 0.3 0.3 0:00.34 httpd
25674 nobody 19 4 156m 25m 9m S 0.3 0.3 0:00.22 httpd
25730 nobody 19 4 150m 17m 7612 S 0.3 0.2 0:00.10 httpd
25791 root 15 0 12840 1176 800 R 0.3 0.0 0:00.10 top
25795 nobody 19 4 147m 12m 4124 S 0.3 0.2 0:00.02 httpd
25802 nobody 19 4 147m 12m 4112 S 0.3 0.2 0:00.01 httpd
25810 nobody 19 4 147m 12m 4108 S 0.3 0.2 0:00.01 httpd
1 root 15 0 10348 704 588 S 0.0 0.0 0:01.59 init
2 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.86 migration/0
3 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0
4 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/0
5 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.47 migration/1
6 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/1

Last edited by ohlookaforum; 08-07-2010 at 08:30 PM.
 
Old 08-07-2010, 08:49 PM   #5
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Here it is when the forum is down:

Quote:
top - 02:49:20 up 58 min, 1 user, load average: 19.10, 5.80, 2.63
Mem: 8168584k total, 4289064k used, 3879520k free, 53996k buffers
Swap: 4192924k total, 0k used, 4192924k free, 2769472k cached
Cumulative time On
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
2978 mysql 21 6 839m 68m 4176 S 0.0 0.9 0:44.18 mysqld
2076 root 10 -5 0 0 0 R 0.0 0.0 0:17.55 kondemand/1
15 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:03.56 events/1
14 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:03.13 events/0
4226 root 18 0 124m 23m 1708 S 0.0 0.3 0:02.14 lfd
1764 root 10 -5 0 0 0 D 0.0 0.0 0:01.98 kjournald
11910 root 21 4 146m 14m 7368 S 0.0 0.2 0:01.91 httpd
2075 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:01.89 kondemand/0
1766 root 10 -5 0 0 0 D 0.0 0.0 0:01.84 kjournald
1 root 15 0 10348 704 588 S 0.0 0.0 0:01.59 init
4214 root 23 8 110m 43m 2540 S 0.0 0.5 0:00.99 spamd
1760 root 10 -5 0 0 0 D 0.0 0.0 0:00.97 kjournald
2 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.86 migration/0
32137 nobody 19 4 158m 29m 12m S 0.0 0.4 0:00.84 httpd
32141 nobody 19 4 158m 28m 11m S 0.0 0.4 0:00.74 httpd
4247 root 24 8 110m 43m 1744 S 0.0 0.5 0:00.70 spamd
1762 root 10 -5 0 0 0 D 0.0 0.0 0:00.63 kjournald
5 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.61 migration/1
608 nobody 19 4 157m 24m 8648 S 0.0 0.3 0:00.55 httpd
 
Old 08-09-2010, 01:43 PM   #6
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thank you for reporting my thread be moved.

Last edited by ohlookaforum; 08-09-2010 at 04:58 PM.
 
Old 08-09-2010, 05:26 PM   #7
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