cpu and cyrus

[Wesley Craig]

On 31 Aug 2011, at 14:36, Maria McKinley wrote:
> Anyway, here is an example of some processes that are getting big:
> 
>   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND 
> 
> 24328 cyrus     20   0  147m 6236 5004 R 27.4  0.2  22:07.21 imapd 
> 
> 27549 cyrus     20   0  147m 6512 5116 R 27.4  0.2 155:41.26 imapd 
> 
> 30097 cyrus     20   0  147m 6280 5052 R 27.1  0.2  93:44.08 imapd 
> 
> 
> Unfortunately I can't tell you anymore about these processes, since they 
> are just cut and pasted from a terminal where I checked top before 
> restarting cyrus, and cyrus has not regrown yet.

It would be handy if you'd gather some metrics from a loaded but not pathological machine, and then additional metrics once it was in a bad state.  Also, getting strace output from a run-away (if it is run-away) process would be handy.

:wes