From oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Fri Jul 22 10:39:21 2005 Return-Path: Received: from air891.startdedicated.com (root@localhost) by orafaq.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j6MFdLrB020925 for ; Fri, 22 Jul 2005 10:39:21 -0500 X-ClientAddr: 206.53.239.180 Received: from turing.freelists.org (freelists-180.iquest.net [206.53.239.180]) by air891.startdedicated.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j6MFdGIP020910 for ; Fri, 22 Jul 2005 10:39:16 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id E2C3C1D74C9; Fri, 22 Jul 2005 10:39:09 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing.freelists.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (turing [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 32491-03; Fri, 22 Jul 2005 10:39:09 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 656311D74D3; Fri, 22 Jul 2005 10:39:09 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <1122046618.42e1129a1b987@webmail.koovakattu.com> Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 10:36:58 -0500 From: Denny Koovakattu To: Magnus.Andersen@WalkerFirst.com Cc: "Oracle-L (E-mail)" Subject: Re: Know anyone? References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 3.2.3 X-Originating-IP: 208.147.67.129 X-archive-position: 22820 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Errors-To: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org X-original-sender: oracle-l@koovakattu.com Precedence: normal Reply-To: oracle-l@koovakattu.com X-list: oracle-l X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p9 (Debian) at avenirtech.net X-mailscan-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-mailscan-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on air891.startdedicated.com X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=2.63 During these spikes, what is the CPU usage ? Is most of the CPU usage reported as system ? (sar output during a spike would be helpful) Is the kswapd process using a excessive CPU ? How much memory do you have on this system ? What's the RH patch level ? Are you using hugetlb ? Thanks, Denny -- Denny Koovakattu Quoting Magnus Andersen : > Hi All, > > I am in need of a consultant that is heavy on RedHat Linux real world > experience for an emergency situation. > > Here is the situation: I have recently gone live with our production > database on RedHat Linux 3 AS and I am having a few issues. My biggest > problem right now is that I am seeing spikes in my load average, resulting > in my system slowing down, throughout the day as soon as I have 6 - 7 or > more two tier connections to the database. > > Hardware: HP DL 580, 4 3 GHZ CPUs with 512k L1 Cache and 4 MB L2 Cache, HDDs > is in RAID 10 config, all Ultra 320 36 GB 15000RPM. > > Thanks in advance, > > Magnus Andersen > Systems Administrator / Oracle DBA > Walker & Associates, Inc. ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l