On 16-Jul-01 Dan wrote:
>
> USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND
> root 2 14.2 0.0 0 0 ?? DL Tue11AM 4:35.33 (pagedaemon)
> root 3 12.7 0.0 0 0 ?? DL Tue11AM 1:56.25 (vmdaemon)
>
> Cpu kept hitting high load averages on machines for about 1 min periods on
> some machines on some apache servers. I wrote a script to catch the
> offending processes and it seems to be these ones. Ideas on why they would
> be taking that much cpu?
These processes manage the VM paging, so perhaps you are running low on memory
and trashing?
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