System Cpu Between 50-70% and need to find out why

[Kris Kennaway]

On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 11:38:22AM -0400, Paul wrote:
> Hi Kris,
> 
> Nothing is essentially working to answer your question on my diagnosis.
> 
> Everything is extremely slow and I can net get simple sendmail 
> services working at a reasonable rate of a few messages per second.
> 
> Any ideas?

Please post your kernel config.

Kris

P.S. Also please don't top-post, it destroys context

> 
> Thanks for your help
> 
> Paul
> 
> At 11:33 AM 23/04/2007, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> >On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 11:27:17AM -0400, Paul wrote:
> >> Hi Steve,
> >>
> >> When I shut off everything except apache with very low load and
> >> qpopper it is still maxed out.
> >
> >That does not look like very low load to me.  On the contrary, your
> >stats show that 30-40 running processes are being scheduled for
> >running on the 4 CPUs at any one time.  Under those circumstances you
> >should expect to see 100% CPU usage (anything less means your system
> >is not being completely used).  Can you please confirm what you are
> >using for your diagnosis that there is something wrong with the system
> >performance?
> 
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