From: Steve Loughran (stevelml1@scee.sony.co.uk)
Date: Wed Jul 07 2004 - 06:55:40 EDT
Hi all
First time poster on here, so be gentle with me. I am a long time Unix user,
but I dont specialise in Solaris, so this probably simple problem is
confusing me somewhat.
I have a Sun Ultra5 running Solaris 8 that seems to spending a lot of time
running "system" or "kernel" commands. I have done the usual list of things,
like running top, ps, iostat, vmstat, etc, but cannot see anything really
obvious that can be causing it
the top few lines of my "top" command looks like this:
=========
load averages: 0.22, 0.23, 0.23 <hostname> 11:43:05
39 processes: 36 sleeping, 1 running, 1 stopped, 1 on cpu
CPU states: 62.0% idle, 0.0% user, 38.0% kernel, 0.0% iowait, 0.0% swap
Memory: 512M real, 312M free, 86.0M swap in use, 411M swap free
========
and yet not one of the processes listed are running at above 1-2% CPU time.
netstat shows no excesive collisions, vmstat and iostat show nothing out of
the ordinary (I think), and ps shows no zombie processes lying around. I do
see "sched" as a stopped/traced process... is that normal? Also, why 86Mb
swap used, but loads of real RAM left.. normal?
Is anyone able to point me at a decent online reference to help me narrow
down my search? Or at least give me some ideas as to what I should be
looking at/for? I have done the usualy google search, but without an real
idea of what I am searching for, it makes the search almost impossible to
pin down.
Sorry for asking what is such a very basic question, but I am a bit lost. I
know this kind of problem is below most of you, laugh if you must :)
Your help is grealy appreciated, many thanks in advance.
-- Steve Loughran Network Infrastrucure Manager Sony Computer Entertainment Europe _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers
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