[wellylug] CPU load

[Brent Wood]

--- Gordon Paynter <lists at paynter.info> wrote:

> On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 10:42, andrej at paradise.net.nz wrote:
> > Quoting Gordon Paynter <lists at paynter.info>:
> > > run top, I can see one process that registers in the %CPU column: it
> > > gets
> > > 99.9%, even though it is niced down to 10 (i.e. it is low-priority).
> >
> > How about telling us what that process is?
> 
> An application I wrote myself, that is CPU-intensive, and intermittantly 
> MySQL-intensive.  I'll try killing it, but I don;t expect it to make a 
> difference.
> 


I'm not familiar with MySQL, but I know the Postgres developers identified
kswapd as a major load hog with s number of 2.4 installations. An upgrade to a 
2.6 kernel supposedly fixed the problem.

What sort of cpu & memory useage does top show for the top 5 or so processes
when things slow down?


Brent