<div class="gmail_quote">2009/4/10 Melinda Odom <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:info@designhosting.biz">info@designhosting.biz</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div style="">Hi,<div><br></div><div>I have a P4 3.2 linux server.<br><div><br></div><div><span style="color: rgb(50, 61, 79); font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; line-height: 15px;">Every since I upgrade to centos 5.3 I see duplicates when running top -c like:</span></div>
<div><font color="#323d4f" face="'Lucida Grande'"><span style="line-height: 15px;"><br></span></font></div><div><span style="color: rgb(50, 61, 79); font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; line-height: 15px;"><span style="color: rgb(75, 92, 119);">3 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.13 [ksoftirqd/0] <br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">
4 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 [watchdog/0] <br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">5 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 [migration/1] <br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">6 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.64 [ksoftirqd/1] <br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">
7 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 [watchdog/1] <br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">8 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.03 [events/0] <br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">9 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.12 [events/1] <br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">
10 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 [khelper] <br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">11 root 11 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 [kthread] <br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">15 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:02.17 [kblockd/0] <br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">
16 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:03.28 [kblockd/1] <br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">17 root 17 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 [kacpid] <br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">90 root 16 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 [cqueue/0] <br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">
91 root 16 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 [cqueue/1] <br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">94 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 [khubd] <br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">96 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 [kseriod] <br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">
160 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:12.92 [pdflush] <br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">161 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:21.17 [pdflush]</span><br><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I don't have watchdog installed either.</span></div>
<div><span style="color: rgb(50, 61, 79); font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; line-height: 15px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">It seems my load has also gone up<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">
How would I fix this so there are not duplicates running?</span><br></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br>You have a dual core machine... Those duplicated processes are per CPU kernel threads...<br><br>This is entirely normal and was exactly the same on centos 5.2 before the upgrade... <br>
<br>The only way to make the duplicates go away is to use a single core single processor...<br></div></div><br>d<br>