[CentOS] Cent0S 4.3 - Athlon x86_64 - Load issue

Wed Jul 26 11:13:34 UTC 2006
Johnny Hughes <mailing-lists at hughesjr.com>

On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 11:26 +0100, Tom Brown wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I have got 8 Sun x4100's and i have got the following on there
> 
> Linux xxxxxx04 2.6.9-34.0.2.ELsmp #1 SMP Fri Jun 30 10:32:04 EDT 2006 
> x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> 
> I have found an issue where every hour the load rises to 1 sits there 
> for nearly an hour and then drops to 0 again (these boxes are not 
> currently being used)
> 
> Has anyone seen this before or know perhaps why this may happen? When 
> the load is high there is nothing showing in a top that may suggest a 
> reason.
> 

First thing to do is look in /etc/cron.hourly/ (and /etc/cron.d/ ) to
see what is running when it starts:

also a "ps -efm" might show threads not in top.
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