Is it normal for a system to run like this? Code: Tasks: 238 total, 30 running, 201 sleeping, 0 stopped, 7 zombie Cpu(s): 97.3% us, 2.7% sy, 0.0% ni, 0.0% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si Mem: 2053692k total, 1352876k used, 700816k free, 99640k buffers Swap: 3903784k total, 13448k used, 3890336k free, 230188k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 13542 asmith 20 0 56352 26m 2212 R 6.6 1.3 0:00.50 spamassassin 13494 breily 20 0 56352 26m 2212 R 5.0 1.3 0:00.50 spamassassin 13568 ccowan 25 0 7964 1416 712 R 4.3 0.1 0:00.26 clamscan 13450 tlawrenc 19 0 31172 24m 724 R 3.7 1.2 0:01.34 clamscan 13443 rray 19 0 31048 23m 724 R 3.3 1.2 0:01.34 clamscan 13468 dbodine 20 0 56352 26m 2212 R 3.3 1.3 0:00.49 spamassassin 13472 tstover 20 0 56352 26m 2212 R 3.3 1.3 0:00.50 spamassassin 13478 dbodine 20 0 56344 26m 2212 R 3.3 1.3 0:00.49 spamassassin 13482 mirizarr 20 0 56344 26m 2212 R 3.3 1.3 0:00.51 spamassassin 13498 jmartine 20 0 56352 26m 2212 R 3.3 1.3 0:00.49 spamassassin 13502 asmith 20 0 56352 26m 2212 R 3.3 1.3 0:00.50 spamassassin 13506 ecarpent 20 0 56344 26m 2212 R 3.3 1.3 0:00.49 spamassassin 13510 jmartine 20 0 56580 27m 2212 R 3.3 1.4 0:00.49 spamassassin 13514 breily 20 0 56344 26m 2212 R 3.3 1.3 0:00.51 spamassassin 13518 tlawrenc 20 0 56340 26m 2212 R 3.3 1.3 0:00.51 spamassassin 13522 postmast 21 0 56340 26m 2212 R 3.3 1.3 0:00.50 spamassassin 13526 borman 20 0 56344 26m 2212 R 3.3 1.3 0:00.49 spamassassin 13530 rray 20 0 56352 26m 2212 R 3.3 1.3 0:00.49 spamassassin 13534 donpope 20 0 56352 26m 2212 R 3.3 1.3 0:00.52 spamassassin 13538 ccowan 20 0 56340 26m 2212 R 3.3 1.3 0:00.50 spamassassin 13546 office 20 0 56344 26m 2212 R 3.3 1.3 0:00.51 spamassassin 13550 borman 20 0 56352 26m 2212 R 3.3 1.3 0:00.52 spamassassin 13554 donpope 20 0 56348 26m 2212 R 3.3 1.3 0:00.50 spamassassin 13569 postmast 19 0 7968 1416 712 R 3.3 0.1 0:00.39 clamscan 13359 tstover 19 0 32756 25m 804 R 3.0 1.3 0:01.53 clamscan 13365 ecarpent 19 0 32756 25m 804 R 3.0 1.3 0:01.53 clamscan 13419 mirizarr 19 0 31304 24m 724 R 3.0 1.2 0:01.33 clamscan 13583 office 20 0 23256 8700 1692 R 3.0 0.4 0:00.09 spamassassin 9803 root 16 0 28400 2420 1864 R 0.3 0.1 0:00.43 sshd 29726 root 16 0 10784 1508 940 R 0.3 0.1 0:05.68 top 1 root 16 0 2632 560 476 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.59 init 2 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0 3 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.07 events/0 4 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 khelper 5 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kthread 7 root 20 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpid 84 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.10 kblockd/0 87 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khubd 122 root 20 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 aio/0 121 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.21 kswapd0 707 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 kseriod 2932 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:01.04 reiserfs/0 3109 root 16 -4 4784 600 492 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.13 udevd 4843 root 25 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 shpchpd_event In trying to debug a bad update I noticed my system running slower than normal and e-mail taking more than 20 minutes to arrive. I am running on dual AMD64's with 2GB of ram. Let me know your thoughts. Thanks, Mel
Don't have a solution, but doesn't look too good. You need more horse power for the spamassassin processes, but you don't have it. In the mean time more mails are arriving, requesting for even more cpu resources. Maybe stop the MTA (Postfix ?) temporary until all mail is scanned to fix this immediate problem? The fact that the MTA is not available should not lead to missing emails, as normal servers wild do retry's (up till 3-5 days). More permanent investigation should probably be done.
Yes, the system was being bogged down by all the clamscan and spamassassin that was held up in the queue. It took about an hour to clear up after fixing my botched upgrade. Now the top looks like this: Code: Tasks: 96 total, 1 running, 95 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 0.0% us, 0.0% sy, 0.0% ni, 100.0% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si Mem: 2053692k total, 1164096k used, 889596k free, 104548k buffers Swap: 3903784k total, 13448k used, 3890336k free, 175404k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 1 root 16 0 2632 560 476 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.61 init 2 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0 3 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.07 events/0 4 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 khelper 5 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kthread 7 root 20 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpid 84 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.10 kblockd/0 87 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khubd 122 root 20 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 aio/0 121 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.21 kswapd0 707 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 kseriod 2932 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:01.15 reiserfs/0 3109 root 16 -4 4784 600 492 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.13 udevd 4843 root 25 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 shpchpd_event 6317 root 16 0 3288 1292 556 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 acpid 6332 syslog 16 0 7080 776 612 S 0.0 0.0 0:02.58 syslogd 6349 root 17 0 2628 428 348 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 dd 6351 klog 16 0 4088 1996 476 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.05 klogd 6364 messageb 16 0 8412 1108 932 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 dbus-daemon 6377 hal 16 0 17040 3956 1664 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.23 hald 6382 hal 18 0 6040 656 544 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 hald-addon-acpi 6390 hal 17 0 6044 688 572 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.65 hald-addon-stor 6437 root 17 0 3852 524 428 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 courierlogger Thanks for the help! Mel
