cpu and cyrus

[Maria McKinley]

On 8/31/11 11:44 AM, Wesley Craig wrote:
> 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


Not sure how helpful this is, but you can see where the that I have 
restarted cyrus twice in the last 24 hours, and three times in the last 
week, and how this has affected the load, etc. of this machine.

http://www.shadlen.org/munin/Servers/ella.shadlen.org/index.html

~m