It could also corrupt your FS.  I strongly reccomend against running 2.4
on a production system unless you have no choice.

~Deepak

On Feb 15 2001, at 18:25, Brian Cluff was caught saying:
> You might want to try running a 2.4 kernel if you aren't already.  It's
> supposed to take care problems like you are describing, and you'll get a lot
> better bang for your buck from the CPU's.
> Just be care if you are running Reiser on RAID, there are some curruption
> problems with that setup... otherwise..  good stuff!
> 
> Brian Cluff
> ----- Original Message -----
> >   5:23pm  up  2:15, 191 users,  load average: 11.46, 11.16, 14.25
> > 872 processes: 858 sleeping, 14 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
> > CPU0 states: 18.3% user, 81.5% system,  0.0% nice,  0.0% idle
> > CPU1 states: 17.0% user, 83.0% system,  0.0% nice,  0.0% idle
> > CPU2 states: 18.7% user, 81.1% system,  0.0% nice,  0.0% idle
> > CPU3 states: 17.1% user, 82.7% system,  0.0% nice,  0.0% idle
> > Mem:  3954672K av, 2090204K used, 1864468K free,  573700K shrd,  331720K
> > buff
> > Swap: 1056092K av,    1684K used, 1054408K free                 1453604K
> > cached
> >
> > this quad system constantly has 80% useage on all 4 procs??? is this
> > normal???
> >
> > We hit 650 users today and had to reboot.  Not good.  The system was
> > still
> > running but the load was so high that it would not move.  There seem to
> > be atleast
> > 2-3 process left hanging after someone logs out.  usually -sh and our
> > bussness
> > application.
> >
> > What in a program can cause it not to die when your session is over? and
> > what can i do to help clean these up rather than just haveing greping
> > them out
> > of a ps and killing them?
> >
> > --
> > --
> > Bill Warner
> > Direct Alliance Corp.
> > Unix/Linux Admin.
> >
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