[imp] wvWare

Chris Crowley ccrowley@tulane.edu
Tue, 6 Feb 2001 16:30:21 -0600


> What should eat the processor time if processes shouldnt.?

Quite literally, you are correct. But in this case, the process were
exceedingly greedy, and needed to be killed to relinquish the processor.

Typical load on this machine is:
 load average: 0.72, 0.62, 0.65

top output for problem period:

last pid: 17216;  load averages:  5.13,  4.96,  4.89
14:31:18
123 processes: 118 sleeping, 1 running, 4 on cpu
CPU states:  0.0% idle, 98.3% user,  1.7% kernel,  0.0% iowait,  0.0% swap
Memory: 1024M real, 299M free, 166M swap in use, 1858M swap free

  PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE  SIZE   RES STATE   TIME    CPU COMMAND
15032 nobody     1   0    0 3632K 2360K cpu0   61:04 20.75% wvWare
15030 nobody     1   0    0 3632K 2360K run    61:21 20.52% wvWare
 9275 nobody     1   0    0 3840K 2248K cpu1  332:54 20.35% wvWare
14829 nobody     1   0    0 3632K 2360K cpu2   67:56 20.16% wvWare
 2554 nobody     1  28    0   18M   16M sleep  20:04  0.78% httpd
17014 nobody     1  28    0 9840K 7904K sleep   0:08  0.67% httpd
16971 nobody     1  25    0   10M 8320K sleep   0:09  0.67% httpd
16970 nobody     1  54    0 9976K 8168K sleep   0:11  0.61% httpd
14636 nobody     1  58    0   14M   13M sleep   2:15  0.59% httpd
 2555 nobody     1  24    0   16M   14M sleep  19:41  0.57% httpd
17076 nobody     1  28    0 9832K 8008K sleep   0:02  0.53% httpd
16938 nobody     1  28    0   10M 8480K sleep   0:13  0.52% httpd
 2564 nobody     1  43    0   17M   13M sleep  18:04  0.49% httpd
 2609 nobody     1  58    0   24M   16M sleep  12:03  0.48% httpd
17106 nobody     1  52    0 9776K 7736K sleep   0:01  0.48% httpd