[WBEL-users] RE: monitoring strange behavior help

[Erick Perez]

This is a partial output of top a few miutes ago:

 09:30:49  up 16:19,  1 user,  load average: 0.29, 0.14, 0.14
92 processes: 90 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states:  cpu    user    nice  system    irq  softirq  iowait    idle
           total    6.1%    0.0%    4.3%   0.3%     0.0%    8.1%   80.8%
Mem:   497368k av,  476148k used,   21220k free,       0k shrd,   17488k buff
                    364092k actv,   70384k in_d,    6752k in_c
Swap:  522104k av,  521884k used,     220k free                  246012k cached

  PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME CPU COMMAND
 3522 imss      15   0 53060  17M  2376 S     2.3  3.6   0:01   0 imssd
30422 root      15   0  1260 1260   904 R     0.3  0.2   0:00   0 top
30688 iscan     15   0   488  488   420 S     0.3  0.0   0:00   0 vmstat
   13 root      15   0     0    0     0 SW    0.1  0.0   0:06   0 kjournald
  830 root      15   0   592  560   512 S     0.1  0.1   0:03   0 syslogd
30689 iscan     15   0   792  788   692 S     0.1  0.1   0:00   0 awk
    1 root      17   0   504  472   448 S     0.0  0.0   0:03   0 init
    2 root      15   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00   0 keventd
    3 root      15   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00   0 kapmd
    4 root      34  19     0    0     0 SWN   0.0  0.0   0:00   0 ksoftirqd/0
    7 root      25   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00   0 bdflush
    5 root      15   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:12   0 kswapd
    6 root      15   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:03   0 kscand
    8 root      15   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00   0 kupdated
    9 root      25   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00   0 mdrecoveryd


The only thing I see is:
1- almost no swap free (RAM is 512 MB, sawp is like 512 MB)
2- imssd and iwssd processes make CPU usage jump.

[root at mail root]# df -m
Filesystem           1M-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda2                13821      5516      7604  43% /
/dev/hda1                   99        10        85  10% /boot
none                       243         0       243   0% /dev/shm


thanks in advance,



On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 08:17:04 -0600, VE5BAR <ve5bar at sarl.ca> wrote:
> Erick,
> 
> You might try leaving top running on the console and if you are lucky you may be able to see the stats just before it freezes.  Also don't rule out hardware problems,  I have seen this from intermittent problems on a hard drive and also bad memory.
> 
> Hope you managed to find your problem.
> 
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Erick Perez
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