Re: [CentOS] CPU utils almost 100%-- solved---but still a query

2009-07-15 Thread JohnS
On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 13:04 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > fabian wrote: > >> fabian wrote: > >> > >>> apprecite some help n advice how to get reid of this directory > >> Is /var/ on a separate file system? It sounds like there is just > >> a massive amount of files there, if /var is split out then

Re: [CentOS] CPU utils almost 100%-- solved---its OK now

2009-07-14 Thread fabian
> fabian wrote: >>> fabian wrote: >>> apprecite some help n advice how to get reid of this directory >>> Is /var/ on a separate file system? It sounds like there is just >>> a massive amount of files there, if /var is split out then you >>> can move all other data off of /var and reformat it,

Re: [CentOS] CPU utils almost 100%-- solved---but still a query

2009-07-14 Thread Les Mikesell
fabian wrote: >> fabian wrote: >> >>> apprecite some help n advice how to get reid of this directory >> Is /var/ on a separate file system? It sounds like there is just >> a massive amount of files there, if /var is split out then you >> can move all other data off of /var and reformat it, and copy

Re: [CentOS] CPU utils almost 100%-- solved---but still a query

2009-07-14 Thread fabian
> fabian wrote: > >> apprecite some help n advice how to get reid of this directory > > Is /var/ on a separate file system? It sounds like there is just > a massive amount of files there, if /var is split out then you > can move all other data off of /var and reformat it, and copy the > data back.

Re: [CentOS] CPU utils almost 100%-- solved---but still a query

2009-07-14 Thread nate
fabian wrote: > apprecite some help n advice how to get reid of this directory Is /var/ on a separate file system? It sounds like there is just a massive amount of files there, if /var is split out then you can move all other data off of /var and reformat it, and copy the data back. Otherwise pe

Re: [CentOS] CPU utils almost 100%-- solved

2009-07-06 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Monday 06 July 2009, "fabian" wrote: > now everything works fine without this file in the /etc/cron.daily > directory so the tmpwatch was the culprit cause the CPU wait state to > almost 99 % for almost 6 hrs > but jus would like to know if this particular script has any signifance > or any per

Re: [CentOS] CPU utils almost 100%-- solved

2009-07-06 Thread Rob Kampen
fabian wrote: Dear Guys Thanks and apprecite your quick replies By the way i had stated solving the problem of almost 100% CPU utulization starting everyday at 4 am and ending at 10 am in a very crude way top was reporting 95% wa i started to check the crontab file and noticed that the cron.dai

Re: [CentOS] CPU utils almost 100%-- solved

2009-07-06 Thread fabian
Dear Guys Thanks and apprecite your quick replies By the way i had stated solving the problem of almost 100% CPU utulization starting everyday at 4 am and ending at 10 am in a very crude way top was reporting 95% wa i started to check the crontab file and noticed that the cron.daily entry in the

Re: [CentOS] CPU utils almost 100%

2009-07-05 Thread Les Mikesell
fabian wrote: >> 2009/7/5 fabian >> >>> i notced recently that the cpu utilization peaks to abt 100 % at 4 am >>> every day and becomes normall at 10 am >>> >>> >>> cpu 4.5%us 2.3% sy 0.0%ni 2% id 95% wa >>> >>> notice the 95% wa >>> >>> >> It looks like you might be misreading the idle % for

Re: [CentOS] CPU utils almost 100%

2009-07-05 Thread JohnS
On Sun, 2009-07-05 at 17:32 +0300, fabian wrote: > > 2009/7/5 fabian > > > >> > >> i notced recently that the cpu utilization peaks to abt 100 % at 4 am > >> every day and becomes normall at 10 am > >> > >> > >> cpu 4.5%us 2.3% sy 0.0%ni 2% id 95% wa > >> > >> notice the 95% wa > >> > >> > >

Re: [CentOS] CPU utils almost 100%

2009-07-05 Thread Kwan Lowe
2009/7/5 fabian > > i notced recently that the cpu utilization peaks to abt 100 % at 4 am > every day and becomes normall at 10 am > > > cpu 4.5%us 2.3% sy 0.0%ni 2% id 95% wa > > notice the 95% wa > > It looks like you might be misreading the idle % for CPU activity. A 95% idle shows the s