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Florian Philipp schrieb: |
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> Hi list! |
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> My virtual server seems to have a problem and I don't know how to find it. |
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> Today, while trying to create a new postgresql database I noticed that |
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> certain system operations seem to take ages. Normal work on the shell |
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> works just fine but for example accessing the postgresql server through |
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> psql, restarting tomcat, postgresql or zope all show the very same behavior: |
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> Execution freezes, the load average climbs to 1-1.9 and after a few |
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> minutes (maybe longer) the task finishes correctly. During all this |
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> time, top reports that the CPUs are 100% idle. |
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> Other services, for example rsyncd or openvpn, work normally. I also |
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> tried restarting the VM. Shutdown took maybe 10 or 15 minutes. Booting |
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> was much faster with only a few minutes until all services were up and |
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> running. However, it didn't solve the problem. |
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> So, my question is: How can I find out what is causing this? Can I |
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> somehow trace it? Find out why a process waits? |
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> Keep in mind that this is a virtual server. I have no control over the |
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> kernel. Oh, and before you ask: The only recent update was rkhunter from |
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> 1.2.9-r1 to 1.3.4-r2. I also enabled the chkrootkit weekly cronjob. |
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> Thanks in advance! |
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> Florian Philipp |
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Thanks everyone for the suggestions! I was just starting to try it out |
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when I noticed that the problem was gone. Maybe some other VM hogged the |
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system or something. |