Re: top shows unually high cpu usage

Hi,

On Mon, 25 Jun 2007, John Klos wrote:
> > I am not sure why, but since I configured the
server and started things
> > like apache, pure-ftpd, and postfix ( I also
started an rnsyc), now I am
> > seeing the server only being around 30% idle. I
also see a load average of
> > of between 1.50 and 3.00. Yet, I only see 2
running processes (rsync and
> > master). Also, master (part of postfix) seems to
be using almost 1 percent
> > of the cpu all the time. Other than that, the only
thing that I see wrong
> > is Shared object "libipsec.so.2" not
found when I run ping. I figured I
> > would let rync finish which will take the best
part of a week at this
> > rate, before sending it to the colo.
> >
> > Any thoughts?
>
> How much system usage does top show?

CPU states:  0.0% user,  0.0% nice,  2.0% system, 69.8%
interrupt, 28.2% idle

Thanks,
Al

On Jun 25, 2007, at 5:42 PM, DataZap wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 25 Jun 2007, John Klos wrote:
>>> I am not sure why, but since I configured the
server and started  
>>> things
>>> like apache, pure-ftpd, and postfix ( I also
started an rnsyc),  
>>> now I am
>>> seeing the server only being around 30% idle. I
also see a load  
>>> average of
>>> of between 1.50 and 3.00. Yet, I only see 2
running processes  
>>> (rsync and
>>> master). Also, master (part of postfix) seems
to be using almost  
>>> 1 percent
>>> of the cpu all the time. Other than that, the
only thing that I  
>>> see wrong
>>> is Shared object "libipsec.so.2" not
found when I run ping. I  
>>> figured I
>>> would let rync finish which will take the best
part of a week at  
>>> this
>>> rate, before sending it to the colo.
>>>
>>> Any thoughts?
>>
>> How much system usage does top show?
>
> CPU states:  0.0% user,  0.0% nice,  2.0% system, 69.8%
interrupt,  
> 28.2% idle

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