Chris,
On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 10:50:56AM -0400, Chris Hoogendyk wrote:
> >>uptime
> >>
> > 9:04am up 18:58, 2 users, load average: 55.46, 51.27, 51.43
>
>
> whoah! that's a load.
>
> I seem to recall you are on solaris.
You have a good memory, though I also have servers on IRIX and
linux boxes this is a Solaris system. Its an E250 that we use
as a Lotus Notes server.
We are down to two concurrent dumps and the load average dropped
to 33, still rather high, and it will be some hours before I'm able
to tell you what the load average is when amanda is not running.
oh, my other LNotes server on the other E250 currently has a load
average of 0.09, somehow that doesn't seem right either.
Because the partitions are large enough to span tapes we've been
breaking them down into tar-s, we have better fit in the spool
area and on tape and have increased concurrency even though we
didn't increase maxdumps (this system has itself as the only client).
The most recent change having been an issue Jon helped with on Thursday,
where I had to divide a large partition into multiple DLEs and use
excludes since (unlike my other large partition) it didn't have any
divisions of files near the root of the file system.
Actually, since there are no interactive users on this system the
only indication I had of an issue was the fact that sendmail stopped
sending me stuff, smtpd doesn't accept connections, even from the
local box, if the load average is too high.
> What kind of system is this and what else have you got running on it?
>
> I would have to get up in the middle of the night (or run a cron, d'oh)
> to see, but I don't think my amanda server breaks a sweat. My department
> server has been sporadically overloading because of the increase in spam
> lately. But its a mail server that is also running Apache, mysql,
> mediawiki, samba, squirrelmail, postgresql, a gene sequencing pipeline,
> print spooling, netatalk, ftp, imap, . . . etc., and when it gets
> "overloaded" it is nowhere near what you have.
>
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> Chris Hoogendyk
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