Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 12:34:49 +0700 From: "Nguyen Tam Chinh" <unixvn@gmail.com> To: "Chuck Swiger" <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: It's top shows wrong load percent? Message-ID: <64b284310708222234h77d4f97ej84aada7cf962a734@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <A9AB171F-10DB-49C4-B96B-15ED7637690F@mac.com> References: <64b284310708220234n4a01cf47r3767079b6c50eb55@mail.gmail.com> <A9AB171F-10DB-49C4-B96B-15ED7637690F@mac.com>
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On 8/23/07, Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> wrote: > 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.... Thank you for your reply, we actually initialized over 1200 python threads on each server. I'll try to low down the thread number for tracking the problem. -- With best regards, | The Power to Serve Nguyen Tam Chinh | http://www.FreeBSD.org
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