From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Dec 11 21:17:42 2000 From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 11 21:17:39 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.uniserve.com (mail2.uniserve.com [204.244.156.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AF3437B400 for ; Mon, 11 Dec 2000 21:17:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from shell.uniserve.ca ([204.244.186.218]) by mail2.uniserve.com with esmtp (Exim 3.13 #1) id 145hoU-000Ew2-00; Mon, 11 Dec 2000 21:17:18 -0800 Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 21:17:12 -0800 (PST) From: Tom X-Sender: tom@shell.uniserve.ca To: Matt Dillon Cc: Kachun Lee , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Extreme high load with 12/7 4-releng In-Reply-To: <200012120257.eBC2vC798971@earth.backplane.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Matt Dillon wrote: > > :I upgraded 2 of our servers from 4-releng around 4.1.1-release to one that > :cvsup on Dec 7. Before the upgrade, the systems were running at load around > :2. After the upgrade, the load went to over 40 just after few hours of > :usage. Here was some data from top... > > 513 processes? What are you running on the machine? 'ps axl' > > By the feel of it I'm guessing a news machine, in which case it could > simply be catching up on the feed. 513 processes is not hard to do on a web server. Especially if you run a separate instance for each virtual host. > -Matt Tom Uniserve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message