Weird problem, help!
I have a few servers that are:
AMD Athlon XP 1900+
1gb sd ram
they have been running great.
i'll untar a 300mb file, and it'll go fast, and be done within a few seconds.
Then i have another one, that's AMD xp 2000+, 1gb DDR ram. It also has been running great, a b it faster than the xp 1900+
Recently I bought a server that had the following specs:
AMD Athlon XP 2200+ (1.8ghz)
1gb DDR ram
40gb hard drive
my host just got it online last night, and emailed me the info.
so today, i'm downloading proftpd, apache, php, installing my own stuff, ya konw, everything is going fine. apache compield fast, everything went smooth
Then, i downloaded a 300mb file to the server, and ran
tar xzf stock.tar.gz &
because i didnt want to sit through and read what it was unzipping (i knew what it was unzipping)
so while it was in the Backround, i went to go install proftpd, but i noticed the box being REALLY sluggish.
I'd press enter, and it wouldnt do it until like 2 secs later.
Or i'd do wget ftp://balh/blah/blah/proftpd.tar.gz
and it'd be REALLY slow, and i'm not talking network wise. you could tell this was a problem w/ the machine.
i went to go login the box twice, and boy was it slow.
took forever just to get to the root prompt (Again, felt like it was a machine prob)
i ran 'w' and saw the load average being 4. something (i think 4.40)
i was thinking WOW, 4.40 load just to untar a 300mb file ??
Keep in mind, ive untarred this SAME 300mb file on my other xp servers, and the load was alwyas under 1.00 (more like 0.63)
i just could not understnad why the box was behaving this way. it was almost as if it was just struggling..
so i ran killall -9 tar gzip
manually unzipped it
tar xzvf stock.tar.gz
then i checked the other window (where i was logged in twice)
and again, the load sky rocketed
i was puzzled.
i ran top, and these are some of the things i saw (i tried to capture it before it disappeared)
www.drirc.net/top.txt
Can you believe that?? I have untarred huge files on my other xp's, and watched top while i did it, and kswap never uses 99% cpu??
neither does kjournald
something is seroiusly wrong. NONE of my xp's behave like this one does
Does anyone have any idea why this is happening? Any info would be appreciated!
bones:~# uname -a
Linux bones 2.4.18-3 #1 Thu Apr 18 07:32:41 EDT 2002 i686 unknown
bones:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 6
model : 8
model name : AMD Athlon(TM) XP 2200+
stepping : 0
cpu MHz : 1795.393
cache size : 256 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse syscall mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow
bogomips : 3578.26
bones:~#
bones:~# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda3 35G 1.5G 31G 5% /
/dev/hda1 45M 8.6M 34M 20% /boot
none 500M 0 499M 0% /dev/shm
bones:~#
bones:~# free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 999 339 659 0 10 310
-/+ buffers/cache: 19 980
Swap: 2047 0 2047
dmesg can be found here! http://www.drirc.net/dmesg.txt
