From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 12 11:31:52 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B191637B401 for ; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:31:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from mout2.freenet.de (mout2.freenet.de [194.97.50.155]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C21A43F85 for ; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:31:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ino-qc@spotteswoode.de.eu.org) Received: from [194.97.55.148] (helo=mx5.freenet.de) by mout2.freenet.de with asmtp (Exim 4.12) id 18j2bh-0007zt-00 for freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 20:31:45 +0100 Received: from pd950162f.dip.t-dialin.net ([217.80.22.47] helo=spotteswoode.dnsalias.org) by mx5.freenet.de with asmtp (ID inode@freenet.de) (Exim 4.12 #2) id 18j2bh-0007hJ-00 for freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 20:31:45 +0100 Received: (qmail 1086 invoked by uid 0); 12 Feb 2003 19:31:39 -0000 Date: 12 Feb 2003 20:31:39 +0100 Message-ID: From: "clemens fischer" To: "Bogdan TARU" Cc: "Tim Kientzle" , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gettings snapshots of load spikes References: <20030210194805.A47097-100000@fw.office.icom> In-Reply-To: <20030210194805.A47097-100000@fw.office.icom> (Bogdan TARU's message of "Mon, 10 Feb 2003 19:50:39 +0100 (CET)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.3.50 (i386-unknown-freebsd4.6.2) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bogdan TARU : >> > I am having a real weird problem with a newly installed Dell PowerEdge >> > 2650 which acts as a web (Apache) and mail server(Procmail). The load just >> > 'spikes' sometimes (to 40.00 or so), but immediately starts to go down. >> Also, look in your apache and mail server log files >> to see if you're getting a burst of some sort of >> errors around that time. > I have, and found nothing there at all (looked into the system logs as > well, same outcome). i have seen email installations where a combination of scripts and procmail produce a bunch of procmails chewing on their respective emails. also, procmail can't be called a "server", if you're talking about the mail-filter. if the system spikes (you might notice by the disk(s) giving sounds if near enough), just do "ps waux |less". what is your SMTP server? do you run webmailers, or formmail(?) ? clemens To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message