[CentOS] CPU utils almost 100%

Sun Jul 5 15:45:32 UTC 2009
JohnS <jses27 at gmail.com>

On Sun, 2009-07-05 at 17:32 +0300, fabian wrote:
> > 2009/7/5 fabian <fabian at baladia.gov.kw>
> >
> >>
> >> i notced recently that the cpu utilization peaks to abt 100 % at 4 am
> >> every day and becomes normall at 10 am
> >>
> >>
> >> cpu 4.5%us   2.3% sy  0.0%ni 2% id   95% wa
> >>
> >> notice the 95% wa
> >>
> >>
> > It looks like you might be misreading the idle % for CPU activity.  A 95%
> > idle shows the system is not doing much.
> >
> 
> so sorry abouyt my typing
> 
> its cpu==>4.5%us
> sy==> 2.3%
> ni==> 0.0%
> id==> 2 %
> wa==> 95%
> 
> 
> so the wa=95 %
> 
> this starts about 4 am and stops about 10 am
> then the CPU idle time is always between 90% to 99%
----

Your in Time Wait there! Look at your disk i/o and processor ques for
clam av and havp along with squid.

Clam AV in sync with havp and squid with lots of connections can bring a
server to its knees real quick. You can start by looking at your config
for clamd that controls the squid scanning and logging. If no problems
there then look elsewhere. look at your running processes.

John