Re: top : 35.9% user, 64.0% system!!

["Barrett G. Lyon" <blyon netpr com>]

At 09:50 PM 9/16/98 +1000, you wrote:
>Hi Paul,
>
>> > CPU states: 35.9% user, 64.0% system,  0.0% nice,  0.3% idle
>> >  PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT  LIB %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
>> > 3743 saario    14   0  113M 113M   912 R    113M 93.7 22.5  23:18 fd
>> 
>> Look in your /var/log/messages.  I'll bet you a quatloo that your syslogd
>> process is going nuts and spewing out:
>> Jul 22 11:15:07 canoe syslogd: select: Bad file descriptor
>> Jul 22 11:15:38 canoe last message repeated 17817 times
>> Jul 22 11:16:39 canoe last message repeated 79172 times
>> Jul 22 11:17:40 canoe last message repeated 51971 times
>> Jul 22 11:18:41 canoe last message repeated 60583 times
>> 

Up your fds, to do that.. add this to your rc.local
echo "4096">/proc/sys/kernel/file-max
echo "4096">/proc/sys/kernel/inode-max

Whatever causes the system to eat up fds is something I can't figure out,
if someone knows.. let me know.

-Barrett


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