Re: [CentOS] Tracking down whats causing a high load?

On 21/06/06, Ian mu mu.llamas@gmail.com wrote:

Just hoping someone may have some tips on checking whats always waiting or how to isolate whats happening. As said, ps -ef shows no new processes, and cpu usage is very low.

top vmstat 5

... would be two good places to start. 4am sounds like about the time jobs from /etc/cron.daily would kick off.

[root@willspc ~]# grep cron.daily /etc/crontab 02 4 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.daily

Have a look and see what's in cron.daily. On a recently built minimal install I have...

00-logwatch 0anacron prelink slocate.cron yum.cron 00-makewhatis.cron logrotate rpm tmpwatch

It could just be updatedb building your slocate database? (Check /etc/updatedb.conf for DAILY_UPDATE= ).

Will.