What is going on with my system?
David Benfell
benfell at parts-unknown.org
Mon Dec 17 05:35:02 PST 2007
Hello all,
My system, running 7.0BETA4, is periodically responding extremely
slowly. Rebooting seems to resolve the problem, but I also had
to deinstall console-kit-daemon because it was, more often than
not, provoking a kernel page fault during start-up.
You can find all the information I can think of to describe the
system and its troubles at:
http://www.parts-unknown.org/systems/lupin.cybernude.org/
Unfortunately, this web server is the afflicted system, so you
might have trouble getting the information if it happens to be
going through this. But the last time, I did manage to record
the top output:
last pid: 86007; load averages: 65.16, 59.96, 52.63 up 0+09:17:16 19:53:46
150 processes: 15 running, 134 sleeping, 1 zombie
CPU states: 0.3% user, 0.3% nice, 97.5% system, 1.9% interrupt, 0.0% idle
Mem: 340M Active, 602M Inact, 227M Wired, 32M Cache, 112M Buf, 298M Free
Swap: 17G Total, 16K Used, 17G Free
PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU COMMAND
2206 benfell 3 4 19 39844K 24728K fifoor 119:25 3173.58% trackerd
85943 benfell 1 8 20 19112K 16440K wait 0:01 6.93% perl5.8.8
1205 qmails 1 128 0 3072K 1236K RUN 7:32 2.78% qmail-send
77799 cvsupin 1 130 10 6376K 5780K RUN 0:43 1.03% cvsup
85991 benfell 1 -8 20 5904K 3504K piperd 0:00 0.39% perl5.8.8
1273 Gdnscache 1 96 0 4096K 2212K RUN 0:43 0.10% dnscache
2381 root 1 137 10 3500K 1892K RUN 1:54 0.00% zsh
1208 qmaill 1 -8 0 3072K 656K piperd 0:32 0.00% multilog
1272 Gdnslog 1 -8 0 3072K 656K piperd 0:20 0.00% multilog
1215 root 1 131 0 3072K 656K select 0:14 0.00% qmail-lspa
1277 haldaemon 1 96 0 19484K 4576K select 0:10 0.00% hald
2382 root 1 -8 10 144M 142M pipewr 0:10 0.00% find
1577 root 1 96 0 3208K 848K select 0:10 0.00% moused
1217 qmailq 1 -8 0 3072K 632K piperd 0:07 0.00% qmail-clea
1216 qmailr 1 96 0 3072K 764K select 0:06 0.00% qmail-rspa
1207 qmaild 1 20 0 2944K 1208K pause 0:06 0.00% tcpserver
1224 Gtinydns 1 4 0 2480K 716K sbwait 0:05 0.00% tinydns
1206 qmaill 1 -8 0 3072K 656K piperd 0:03 0.00% multilog
As you can see, there are a number of troubling indications. First, the load
averages are off the scale (and I've seen them higher). Second, the CPU state
is 97.5% system. Third, check out the "WCPU" figure for trackerd.
The WCPU figure is similar to that I previously saw with javavm. I managed to
make that problem go away by not allowing firefox to run java.
If I'm going to do any debugging here, you're going to have to treat me like an
idiot. I'm in way over my head here. The only reason I went to this version
was to try to correct problems interacting with my Treo (it didn't help) and I'm
really looking forward to 7.0-RELEASE.
Thanks!
--
David Benfell, LCP
benfell at parts-unknown.org
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