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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!nntp.se.dataphone.net!nntp.uio.no!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.direct.ca!op.net!candle.pha.pa.us!not-for-mail From: root@candle.pha.pa.us (Bruce Momjian) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: Why is my load so high? Date: 10 Apr 1997 18:01:18 GMT Organization: a consultant's basement Lines: 22 Message-ID: <5ij9te$33a$2@picasso.op.net> References: <5iek0e$ho$1@madmax.keyway.net> <5ii3to$52n@nuhou.aloha.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: s1-03.ppp.op.net X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:6627 Eric Sorenson (eric@satanic.org) wrote: : Are you still running the adminweb apache httpd server? There : is a known (to me at least) bug with Apache on bsd that will : run the load up to 1.0 and leave it hovering there until the : httpd receives a SIGHUP. Try 'kill -term `cat /var/run/adminweb.pid`' : and see if your load average doesn't drop dramatically. Haven't : heard of a fix yet, and I've seen this since I first started running : Apache on BSDI two years ago. : : P.S. I think it's a bug in the reporting of load not in actually : _running_ anything so there's not necessarily a runaway process : (i.e. Pine which does that a lot) that's sucking up CPU cycles : in between 'top' polls. I have seen this as new in 3.0. Of course, I never ran httpd before 3.0. -- Bruce Momjian | 830 Blythe Avenue root@candle.pha.pa.us | Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026 + If your life is a hard drive, | (610) 353-9879(w) + Christ can be your backup. | (610) 853-3000(h)