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Re: Strange very high load



I've seen this enough at work, and if it's caused by the same problem,
generally speaking, this isn't the NIC driver (we have dozens of
eepro100 cards here, and none related problems). 
If I'm right than this is caused by some proccess/connection (not sure
about that) getting cut-off at some brutal way and is left hanging. This
causes that ridiculous loads, though If it's like the problems I've
seen, then "top" wont show any proccess occupying so much CPU time, nor
any other parameter which It measures.

I assume that it's likely that you've lost some connection. Be it NFS
(which can cause netscape to do that) or perhaps a GUI SQL client trying
desperately to talk to it's server. 
Check out what went down as far as networked services you use, or any
network based services (which means almost anything if you use NFS...).
Also, to find that misbehaving proccess, switch to terminal
(C+A+F1/2/3...) and try killing (with -9 flag) each suspected proccess
(kill the father though, and verify that it's dead! "vidoo hariga"...
;-). When you've succeed killing that proccess immediatly your machine
will return to normal loads and operation.


Boaz.


Schlomo Schapiro wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have this combination. I already exchanged the driver to the e100 one
> from Intel, but no change. Was this on the NFS server or the NFS client
> ? I am using knfsd on this machine and will try the normal one, too.
> 
> Thanks, Schlomo
> 
> On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Elya Ga Yerr wrote:
> 
> > Hi!
> > I saw very similar problem caused by nfs mount hangs,
> > especially it happens when using nfs over tcp and with eepro100 card.
> > If you have one of above the odds are this is it.
> >  Hope it helps
> > Elya
> >
> > Schlomo Schapiro wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I am suddenly getting a very high load (>10) but the actual number of
> > > processes stays more or less constant. Also the CPU utilisation is low
> > > (10%). This is a PIII 500MHz with 256 MB RAM (which was not detected
> > > automatically, btw). The problem is that this high load is blocking all
> > > kind of programs and I can't run new programs.
> > >
> > > Did anybody experience such a problem ?
> > >
> > > How can I find out what program is causing this high load (as I understand
> > > the load reflects the number of processes spawned per second. It seems
> > > that there is a program that spawns all the time new processes, how can I
> > > find it ?)
> > >
> > > Schlomo
> > >

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