Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 16:22:10 +0300 From: Iasen Kostov <tbyte@otel.net> To: vd@FreeBSD.org Cc: FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Heavy system load by pagedaemon Message-ID: <1147267330.51661.32.camel@DraGoN.OTEL.net> In-Reply-To: <20060510131549.GA15862@qlovarnika.bg.datamax> References: <1147264089.51661.10.camel@DraGoN.OTEL.net> <1147264379.51661.14.camel@DraGoN.OTEL.net> <1147265038.51661.19.camel@DraGoN.OTEL.net> <20060510131549.GA15862@qlovarnika.bg.datamax>
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On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 16:15 +0300, Vasil Dimov wrote: > On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 03:43:58PM +0300, Iasen Kostov wrote: > > On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 15:32 +0300, Iasen Kostov wrote: > > > On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 15:28 +0300, Iasen Kostov wrote: > > > > Hello > > > > I (probably) have some problem with a hosting server machine halting > > > > about once a 30 to minute (probably when the free memory falls under > > > > some threshold). At that moment the machine totally halts for about 5 sec > > > > then resumes normal work with load average around 9-15 (depends on > > > > system load) from about 2-3. The system is: > > > > (nice try :() > > > FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE #7: Wed Mar 15 17:35:21 EET 2006 > > > > > > ACPI APIC Table: <PTLTD APIC > > > > Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 > > > CPU: Dual Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 270 (2004.56-MHz K8-class CPU) > > > Origin = "AuthenticAMD" Id = 0x20f12 Stepping = 2 > > > > > > Features=0x178bfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,HTT> > > > Features2=0x1<SSE3> > > > AMD Features=0xe2500800<SYSCALL,NX,MMX+,<b25>,LM,3DNow+,3DNow> > > > real memory = 8724152320 (8320 MB) > > > avail memory = 8315379712 (7930 MB) > > > FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 4 CPUs > > > > > Hum, I was probably wrong about the free memory threshold - it > > currently has ~1600MB of free and it is doing it again. When the free > > memory falls under ~30MB it is just doing it more frequently. > > > If you are absolutely sure there is a problem with the OS the first > thing you should (probably) do is to upgrade to 6.1-STABLE > > Good luck! Yep but first I'm not sure ... and second - it's using CPanel and I'm not sure what will happen if I do a "make world" :). And someting else - it's a heavy loaded production machine and I can't just stop it for upgrade :). Regards.
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