[CentOS] Hlp with server load

[Chris Mason (Lists)]

>Have you tried running top to see which processes are ready to run?
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Yes, top is not showing me any real informaiton and the server is 
responsive, but the MTA shuts down because it sees such high load. It 
seems to be fake load, locked up processes. I see a lot of vsftpd 
processes using ps -x and I cannot kill them. It's very strange. I have 
several dedicated servers that get hammered all day but I have never 
seen this before. Even shuting down httpd and mysql does not make any 
difference, even though they should be the main load.
I ahve recently installed MailScanner which usually increases the load 
tremendously, but I did not see sendmail as the problem, even when I 
shut down MailScanner, there were no sendmail processes remaining and 
the load kept climbing. The fact that the server is still responsive is 
very curious,at 23 it should be very sluggish.

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