[SlugBug] server health

[Bill Best]

Bruno Postle wrote:

> On Thu 18-Mar-2004 at 12:59:17PM +0000, Bill Best wrote:
> 
>>i have a server below and here's the output of top:
>>
>>
>>>1:40pm  up 266 days,  4:50,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
>>>56 processes: 55 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
>>>
>>>CPU0 states: 23.0% user, 76.0% system,  0.0% nice,  0.0% idle
>>>CPU1 states: 22.0% user, 77.0% system,  0.0% nice,  0.0% idle
> 
> 
>>what concerns me is that it the processors are 0.0% idle - i take this 
>>to mean that the CPU's are working flat out.
> 
> 
> ..but you snipped the rest of the output that would have named the
> process(es) hogging the cpu.

erm, trade secret...

but i can tell you that it's a notoriously buggy proprietary streaming 
media server application that you helped me install about 18 months ago  :-D

no doubt, it's gone 'rogue' - it does that from time to time - but then 
why does top report that system processes are the hogs?

question:  how does top define system processes and user processes?

> It still seems improbable, what does the content of /proc/loadavg
> look like?

user at server ~# cat /proc/loadavg
0.00 0.00 0.00 1/56 1292
user at server ~#

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