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Old 07-30-2003, 03:35 PM   #1
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Question 100% full CPU


Dear Friends ...?

I have a MRTG server running the incredible number of 456 interfaces. The PC is an Athlon 1300, 20 Gb HDD, 512 Mb RAM.

I put all the config files to run on the crontab, creating a concurrency scheme. It is great because in 30seconds I finish my job, but the CPU goes to 100%.
When it occurs (50% of the time), it is difficult to access the machine as Web Server (to see the MRTG graphics) or FTP Server (to download the MRTG logs).
Is there a way to distribute the configs processing more conveniently, in order to take always 10%-or-more-free CPU ?

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Old 07-30-2003, 04:14 PM   #2
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Would it help to include the "nice" command in your crontab entry?

i.e.
nice +15 <command-to-run>

See "man nice"

This would allow the command run by cron to use all resources when running alone, but would allow other processes access when they request it.
 
Old 08-08-2003, 01:44 PM   #3
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For anything that is already running, you can also
renice
the process.

man renice

Renice'ing a process group causes all processes in the process group to have their scheduling priority altered. Renice'ing a user causes all processes owned by the user to have their scheduling priority altered. By default, the processes to be affected are specified by their process ID's.

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Old 08-18-2003, 10:14 AM   #4
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The correct syntax is nice -n 15 <command>.
It worked, but I do not see any changes in CPU behaviour, maybe because of top / gtop limitations.
Is there a tool that draws second-by-second graphics of CPU load, memory load etc for Linux ?
 
Old 08-18-2003, 10:48 AM   #5
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Is there a tool that draws second-by-second graphics of CPU load, memory load etc for Linux ?
Doesn't MRTG have snapons for that?
If it's one offs you want, use Xosview, else search Freshmeat.net for "atsar" or "sar" if you want to have longterm reporting.
 
Old 08-18-2003, 12:37 PM   #6
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I am not sure when it came out, but in 8.0, there is a system monitor GUi that does this. Try gtop in the command line. Refer to your system documentation, there is a GUI tool somewhere in your 'Redhat' start menu.

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Old 08-18-2003, 02:38 PM   #7
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Yes, in RedHat 8 the hwbrowser appears to do that, but at 7.2 not.
 
Old 08-18-2003, 02:40 PM   #8
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Did gtop work? I found that by google with 'redhat 7.2 system monitor'. It brought up that rpm.

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Old 08-18-2003, 03:39 PM   #9
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Yes, gtop works, but bar graphics do not give notion of the CPU`s behaviour. It shows what is happening now, but what happened some seconds before is forgotten.
 
  


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