[lug] load average constant at 2

[Jason Bowen]

I started shutting down services and it dropped to normal levels.  After
restarting the services it is running fine.  I dunno what was going
on.  Didn't pinpoint the exact service because I had accidentally hit a
key in the top window so it was waiting for input.  Thanks for the help.
Jason

On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Atkinson, Chip wrote:

> It means that it checks out ok.  The man page says that all discrepancies
> are displayed, implying that no discrepencies are not displayed.  
> 
> Ok, do you have network access?  can you ping someone like yahoo.com?
> Sometimes network timeouts can cause a problem.  Also, what do you see when
> you run top for a while?  You could go through and start killing processes
> and watch your load.  That often works for me when I've tried everything
> else.
> 
> Chip
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> >From: Jason Bowen [mailto:Jason.Bowen at Colorado.EDU]
> Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2000 3:21 PM
> To: 'lug at lug.boulder.co.us'
> Subject: RE: [lug] load average constant at 2
> 
> 
> On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Atkinson, Chip wrote:
> 
> > How about rpm --verify procps-2.0.6-12mdk?
> 
> Well that is the filename, I had mistyped earlier but I get nothing
> printed out.  Does that mean it checks out?  The man page says nothing
> about having no output from the run.
> 
> > 
> > Here's a script that goes through /proc to see if ps returns every process
> > found in /proc:
> > 
> > for i in $(ls -d /proc/[0-9][0-9]*); do
> > PROC=$(ps auxw | grep $(basename $i))
> > if [ -z "$PROC" ]; then
> >   echo $PROC is not shown by ps
> > fi
> > done
> 
> Nothing was printed.
> 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > >From: Jason Bowen [mailto:Jason.Bowen at Colorado.EDU]
> > Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2000 3:07 PM
> > To: 'lug at lug.boulder.co.us'
> > Subject: RE: [lug] load average constant at 2
> > 
> > 
> > On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Atkinson, Chip wrote:
> > 
> > > That's odd.  What's rpm -qa | grep ps show?
> > > 
> > 
> > getty_ps-2.0.7j-9mdk
> > psmisc-18-2mdk
> > tetex-dvips-1.0.6-6mdk
> > psutils-p17-3mdk
> > xlispstat-3.52.9-4mdk
> > gnapster-1.3.12-0mdk_helix_1
> > procps-X11-2.0.6-5mdk
> > psacct-6.3-2mdk
> > procps-2.0.6-12mdk
> > 
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > >From: Jason Bowen [mailto:Jason.Bowen at Colorado.EDU]
> > > Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2000 3:03 PM
> > > To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> > > Subject: RE: [lug] load average constant at 2
> > > 
> > > 
> > > I had reinstalled procps but here in intersting thing to me.
> > > 
> > > [/bin]# rpm -qf ps
> > > procps-2.0.6-5mdk
> > > [/bin]# rpm --verify procps-2.0.6-5mdk
> > > package procps-2.0.6-5mdk is not installed
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Atkinson, Chip wrote:
> > > 
> > > > The crude version of the ps patch that was installed on my machine was
> > > "too
> > > > small".  If you 
> > > > ls -l $(which ps) and see something that's around 6K bytes, rather
> than
> > > 60K
> > > > bytes, it might be a tipoff.  You can use RPM to help perhaps:
> > > > rpm -q --whatprovides /bin/ps
> > > > returns something like procps-2.0.6-5
> > > > followed by 
> > > > rpm --verify procps-2.0.6-5
> > > > 
> > > > Chip
> > > > 
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > >From: Jason Bowen [mailto:Jason.Bowen at Colorado.EDU]
> > > > Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2000 2:47 PM
> > > > To: 'lug at lug.boulder.co.us'
> > > > Subject: RE: [lug] load average constant at 2
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > ps doesn't show anything unusual either.  I thought about an intruder
> > but
> > > > I don't see anything to be honest.
> > > > 
> > > > On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Atkinson, Chip wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > What does ps show?  Any chance there is a secret process that's
> > running
> > > as
> > > > > the result of an intrusion?  It was something I found on my machines
> > > > anyway.
> > > > > It didn't appear to affect the load too much though.  When I see
> that
> > > > > problem, it's often something like netscape.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Chip
> > > > > 
> > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > >From: Jason Bowen [mailto:Jason.Bowen at Colorado.EDU]
> > > > > Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2000 2:38 PM
> > > > > To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> > > > > Subject: [lug] load average constant at 2
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > For about 2 weeks now, at least that is when I noticed it first, my
> > load
> > > > > average sits at 2.  This is with top reporting the idle processes at
> > > close
> > > > > to 100%.  When I reboot the machine the 5 and 15 minute load
> averages
> > > > > slowly creep towards 2.00 while the 1 minute average drops to 2.00
> > > > > after letting the machine idle after I login at the console.  Has
> > > anybody
> > > > > seen something like this before?
> > > > > Jason
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
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