Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 10:14:18 -0700 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Nguyen Tam Chinh <unixvn@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: It's top shows wrong load percent? Message-ID: <A9AB171F-10DB-49C4-B96B-15ED7637690F@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <64b284310708220234n4a01cf47r3767079b6c50eb55@mail.gmail.com> References: <64b284310708220234n4a01cf47r3767079b6c50eb55@mail.gmail.com>
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On Aug 22, 2007, at 2:34 AM, Nguyen Tam Chinh wrote: > Please advice how to debug this overload problem. > Thank you very much! > > -------------------------- > %top > last pid: 12901; load averages: 8.68, 8.65, 8.65 up 1 > +20:44:06 04:15:12 > 1438 processes:9 running, 1429 sleeping Look at the number of processes you've got-- most likely you've got some scripts leaving zombie processes around, or one of the server programs you are running isn't cleaning up after it's children properly. Do a "ps aux" and look for excessive numbers of processes.... -- -Chuck
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