Subj : Re: Admin email
To   : Deuce
From : DieselMan
Date : Tue Aug 23 2005 03:31 am

 
 >  > from:root@localhost
 >  > subject:draklog mail alert
 >  > load is huge 3.09
 >  > 
 >  > several of these mails in the last 24 hours with different #'s like 3.49,
 > 3.
  > When you do an uptime, it shows you the load average load over the last 1,
5,
 > and 15 minutes.  "average load" is the average number of process waiting for
 > the CPU.  On my BBS box for example (An AMD K6/300 with 64MB of RAM)  the
 > loads
 > are 0.02m 0.04, and 0.03.  In general anything over 1 means that you're at
 > 100%
 > CPU usage.  If it's over two, it means that process aren't being serviced as
 > fast as they need the CPU.
 > 
 > Most likely, there's five or so processes using up all your CPU, use top to
 > track them down.
 

I did a powerdown of the box last night and i am not having the problem
anymore. My system checks security and several other things every hour and if a
problem exists. It's supposed to send me an email. And it had been doing it at
i min after the hour for about 1.5 days. But i had been away from the computer
a lot and hadn't noticed it. I do remember trying to load/run a couple of
programs that just never loaded about 1.5 days before the problem was
discovered. lrssi and bitchx where the apps. they just never even acted like
they tried to load. Maybe it had something to do with it. What is "Top"?
My machine is a 900mhz amd 512ram. Mandrake 10 and i run blackbox. And all that
is running other than services is SBBS and it's servers. I will wait and see if
it occurs again. I'll run a man top here in a minute and see if i get any info
on top. I don't have any servers or even email setup on this box. Drivers,
security cron and required services are all.

Thank you for the reply,


   DieselMan

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