Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:45:52 +0200 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Lukas Ertl <l.ertl@univie.ac.at> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Highly loaded machine getting slower and slower Message-ID: <74044.1059399952@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:34:51 %2B0200." <20030728151919.S334@pcle2.cc.univie.ac.at>
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In message <20030728151919.S334@pcle2.cc.univie.ac.at>, Lukas Ertl writes: >Hi there, > >I'm having again problems with a highly loaded 5.1-current machine. The >box is a 2.4GHz Dual Xeon (HTT enabled) with 1GB RAM and acts as a news >server/feeder running diablo. It's pumping out 120+Mbit/sec over Gigabit >without a glitch, but after some time, it's getting slower and slower, >until it seems to completely freeze, but it's still alive, just _very_ >unresponsive and in fact has to be rebooted. Run a shell script in cron every 5 minutes where you record date sysctl kern.malloc sysctl vm.zone swapinfo ps -axlw and look out for anything which just gobbles up more and more memory. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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