How To Find What Perl Script Is Causing High CPU Usage
Nov 13, 2008
How to find what Perl script is causing high CPU usage?
I logged into my CentOS box tonight and notice after viewing the output of the "top" command that there are the following lines of output that have me concerned. What command can I use to find the source of the Perl script that is causing the CPU spike?
It seems it's been running for some time too.
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
30120 apache 25 0 6908 4544 1216 R 99.8 0.2 13416:07 perl
30654 apache 25 0 8028 4508 1212 R 99.4 0.2 13417:22 perl
21273 apache 25 0 7584 4528 1200 R 98.1 0.2 2225:12 perl
20516 apache 25 0 6760 4540 1232 R 96.8 0.2 2221:30 perl
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Jun 21, 2009
For the past few days, one of the server is causing a bandwidth utilization surge for the entire rack on almost daily basis. It happen for a few minutes and it went off then it will be the same thing again the next day. When the surge is happening, most of the servers on the same segment will be inaccessible for the few minutes.
The bandwidth utilization graph for my rack is recording an abnormal surge from (6mbps --> 90mbps) for the few minutes. My MRTG is showing 2 of the Plesk servers giving the problem but the NOC guys said it the Cpanel that causing the problem.
I tried logging in to both servers but could not find what's the cause for this.
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Sep 5, 2007
Running programs named Perl with Heavy CPU usage, with the ownership of user apache.
We found the problem on Fedora 3 and Fedora 6.
In our case, it was the result of a Trojan activity.
Quick Solution
Check the cron jobs of user apache
crontab -u apache -e
*/1 * * * * perl /tmp/.tmp/tmpfile
delete the cronjob entry.
Also delete the file /tmp/.tmp/tmpfile
also added "apache" to the file /etc/cron.deny
That's all
Problem and solution in detail....
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Aug 3, 2008
just noticed mysql cpu usage has shot up from its usual 5-10% cpu to 30%+. domains are as normal and no extraordinary php processes.
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Jul 14, 2009
In my server iowait is causing high load, how do we find out which are all users taking memory that could cause my server to use swap memory.
server : linux centos/Cpanel
I have tried the below commands, but how do we locate user specific,
ps aux --sort -vsz | head -25
vmstat 1
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Apr 12, 2008
Server is Xeon 3060, 3GB Ram, 250GB SATA-II HDD. I followed the recommendations made by mysqlprimer tuner script.
top - 11:54:33 up 237 days, 15:01, 1 user, load average: 6.06, 2.80, 1.65
Tasks: 133 total, 2 running, 131 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 13.0% us, 4.9% sy, 0.0% ni, 24.3% id, 57.8% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si
Mem: 3114144k total, 3096468k used, 17676k free, 30220k buffers
Swap: 2096440k total, 32348k used, 2064092k free, 2515412k cached
PID USER PR NI %CPU TIME+ %MEM VIRT RES SHR S COMMAND
8610 nobody 16 0 28 1:37.73 0.7 78908 20m 16m S lsphp4
10520 nobody 16 0 3 0:01.97 0.4 78788 10m 6884 S lsphp4
26474 nobody 15 0 2 15:04.07 0.4 14196 11m 3216 S lshttpd
28275 mysql 22 6 1 131:28.83 7.4 733m 224m 2700 S /usr/sbin/mysqld --basedir=/ --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --user=mysql --pi
Code:
[mysqld]
max_connections=500
max_user_connections=300
skip-locking
skip-innodb
query_cache_limit=1M
query_cache_size=64M
query_cache_type=1
interactive_timeout=60
wait_timeout=60
connect_timeout=6
thread_cache_size=128
key_buffer_size=640M
max_allowed_packet=16M
table_cache=2048
join_buffer=1M
sort_buffer=2M
record_buffer=1M
sort_buffer_size=2M
read_buffer_size=2M
safe-show-database
max_connect_errors=10
thread_concurrency=2
myisam_sort_buffer_size=64M
datadir=/var/lib/mysql
socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
#log_slow_queries=/var/log/mysql/mysql_slow-queries.log
long_query_time=3
tmp_table_size=32M
max_heap_table_size=32M
#log-queries-not-using-indexes=/var/log/mysql/mysql_queries_no-indexes.log
join_buffer_size=2M
low_priority_updates=1
read_rnd_buffer_size=2M
[mysql.server]
user=mysql
basedir=/var/lib
[safe_mysqld]
err-log=/var/log/mysqld.log
var/lib/mysql/mysql.pid
open_files_limit=8192
[mysqldump]
quick
max_allowed_packet=16M
[mysql]
no-auto-rehash
[isamchk]
key_buffer=32M
sort_buffer=32M
read_buffer=16M
write_buffer=16M
[myisamchk]
key_buffer=32M
sort_buffer=32M
read_buffer=16M
write_buffer=16M
[mysqlhotcopy]
interactive-timeout
Whenever there are a lot of members online on my forum, the iowait shoot up, >30% and often times hovering at 60%. It'll eventually drop down to normal levels. However, during the high iowait, there are over 2.5GB of free memory according to the command, free -m
is it due to mysql not optimized or other processes? I don't think the bottleneck is on the cpu or ram.
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May 18, 2007
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I've restarted the VPS numerous of times, and I wish to found out the problem
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Jul 17, 2008
It's been a while since I've posted in this area of the forum, but was just wondering if by now someone or some company has developed a script/software that you can install on your server that will tell you the exact area where the high CPU load is coming from, such as from someone sending email, a certain users account, and etc?
Most times, you have to be mointoring your server at the time of the high load to be exactly sure of what is causing the high load, so, I'm talking about something that will email you right on the spot of the high load in case you are away and will know what caused it.
Most I've seen only tell you that you have a high load, but don't tell you what exactly caused it.
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Jun 14, 2007
find my server filled with suspicious perl processes, most likely the result of bad PHP coding somewhere on my box. I successfully eradicated all of it, but I know it'll only come back again unless I figure out where it came from. Anyone have any ideas how to track it down? I'd search all the httpd logs for each domain, but I don't really know what I'd be looking for.
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Nov 14, 2014
This is my free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1998 1903 95 0 45 542
-/+ buffers/cache: 1315 683
Swap: 2662 36 2625
Not good ....
I got 5 wordpress and 5 statics website on this server and 100 visitors by 24H00 each day.
Question 1 : Why the memory is so low and the swap so high ?
Question 2 : Why i don't find high usage process in top command ?
Question 3 How can i resolve this problem ?
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Jul 2, 2009
I have a site that is eating up my server resources and need to know what the best solution for this is. I'm thinking of getting another server just for mysql but do not know what specs the server should be to handle the current traffic/database load and have the site run smoothly without slowing down to a snail's pace.
An alternative is to get another server just for the videos being served and leave the database and html on the current server. This is where I'm stuck and don't know what route to take with this.
My current server stats:
Dual Xeon 5130
4GB RAM
250GB
50 Mbit/sec
CentOS 3.9
Website traffic stats:
15,000 visitors/day
150,000 pageviews/day
Serving videos
I've attached screenshots of top and bandwidth usage per day. Hopefully with this information you could tell me if I need another server or if there are any things I can do to the current server to help things move faster.
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Feb 22, 2007
Few of the processes are getting more meory usage and I checked by using top command.
It is displaying as 0.6% for each process. Does it mean that it is using 0.6% of the total memory?
How can I find exact memory usage?
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i have a vps and its quite a new one since i just ordered it and transfered everything from my previous..
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I know about high CPU usage and how it works against a webmaster when his host decides to suspend an account over this.
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I tried Google, but i guess poor choice of keywords .
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I have server with P4 ( 2.4ghz) 2gb ram with cpanel and centos.
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Currenty shows 67% ram usage in WHM and here is:
Code:
root@s1 [~]# free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 2018 1645 372 0 15 293
-/+ buffers/cache: 1336 681
Swap: 1992 92 1899
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Jan 20, 2008
i have a quad core Intel XEON 5130 @ 1.60GHz . with 6giga now of memory . i have about 300 account in it . CENTOS Enterprise 4.6 installed .
the probleme is that the memory server it used in totaly . after i was just 2Gb of ram , but sometimes the server lod arrive at 50% . for that i have added more memory (4Gb) , when i added it the memroy usage is always about 4giga sometimes about 3980Mb . the load is normal , but sometimes the server loas arrive at 50% or 60% (this is just in specific times) . after i have decided to add 2 Gb more , now is 6gb in the server . but also all the 6giag of ram is used , the load is normal but memory is all used , look to the top command
top - 02:55:26 up 1 day, 4:31, 1 user, load average: 0.25, 0.30, 0.45
Tasks: 157 total, 2 running, 154 sleeping, 0 stopped, 1 zombie
Cpu(s): 6.5% us, 1.3% sy, 0.0% ni, 92.1% id, 0.1% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si
Mem: 6229508k total, 5995668k used, 233840k free, 213712k buffers
Swap: 4192824k total, 224k used, 4192600k free, 4353968k cached
PID USER PR NI %CPU TIME+ %MEM VIRT RES SHR S COMMAND ....
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Mar 18, 2008
My server details
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os-redhat
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May 31, 2008
I noticed high cpu usage on my server since a couple of days ago. I neither updated software nor changed the configurations on the server. The server load was about 0.5 ~ 1.0 but now the average CPU load does not go below 5.0
when I stop apache (1.3) the load goes down and as soon as I start it up the load start increasing.
I checked for DoS but it seems nothing exists of this type.
I tried to follow the access_log file but from the first view nothing is strange there.
I don't have any control panel on the server. just Apache, FTP and SSH installed.
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Oct 17, 2007
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Feb 18, 2007
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top - 14:19:47 up 1 day, 23:07, 1 user, load average: 1.74, 1.93, 1.89
Tasks: 223 total, 5 running, 217 sleeping, 1 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 39.8% us, 6.6% sy, 14.0% ni, 32.3% id, 7.3% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si
Mem: 2074640k total, 1980804k used, 93836k free, 66200k buffers
Swap: 4192924k total, 1735588k used, 2457336k free, 365136k cached
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 2026 1877 148 0 61 306
-/+ buffers/cache: 1509 516
Swap: 4094 1699 2394
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Jan 20, 2007
Quote:
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1034060 1004864 29196 0 50756 340272
-/+ buffers/cache: 613836 420224
Swap: 1020088 373648 646440
Is there anything I can do to reduce the swap usage?
Running cpanel, Dual Xeon 3.0ghz with 1 gb ram
Quote:
root@****** [~]# uname -a
Linux ****** 2.6.9-42.0.3.EL.cernsmp #1 SMP Fri Oct 6 12:07:54 CEST 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
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Jan 30, 2007
I need some help my CPU (Intel Core 2 Duo 1.7 Ghz) always gets high usage from mysql sometimes its using 95% cpu etc... How can I modify my.cnf to use less CPU and more ram since I have 3gb ram installed?
here is my.cnf
Code:
[mysqld]
back_log = 5
skip-innodb
max_connections = 400
key_buffer = 190M
myisam_sort_buffer_size = 156M
join_buffer_size = 4M
read_buffer_size = 4M
sort_buffer_size = 5M
table_cache = 1024
record_buffer = 1024
thread_concurrency = 2
long_query_time = 1
thread_cache = 1024
thread_cache_size = 992025
wait_timeout = 13
connect_timeout = 5
tmp_table_size = 64M
max_heap_table_size = 16M
max_allowed_packet = 16M
max_connect_errors = 500
read_rnd_buffer_size = 1024
bulk_insert_buffer_size = 32M
query_cache_limit = 1M
query_cache_size = 64M
query_cache_type = 1
query_prealloc_size = 163840
query_alloc_block_size = 32768
low_priority_updates=1
default-storage-engine = MyISAM
[mysqld_safe]
nice = -2
open_files_limit = 4096
[mysqldump]
quick
max_allowed_packet = 16M
[myisamchk]
key_buffer = 64M
sort_buffer = 64M
read_buffer = 32M
write_buffer = 32M
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Aug 30, 2007
I purchased a VPS at wiredtree to upload a site that is in the works so that it would be "ready" once it was launched (had it sitting on a shared server before). So I have this domain on there, as well as a small wordpress blog. In total I'm get a very miniscule trickle of visitors to these websites (as they are not officially launched), around 100 visits per day, many of which are only 1 pageview visits.
My problem is, my server is already idling over its memory limit of 256mb. This is causing major slowdowns, and processes like cpanel are constantly be killed and I can't login.
Does anyone have any idea what is causing my high memory usage? I just can't image that the visitors I am getting are doing much, as for the majority of the day I have absolutely no one viewing my domains, yet my memory usage is still over the limit.
Wiredtree support says its up to me to optimize my msql/php scripts etc for low mem usage, but I don't see how this will help when there is no one using them in the first place.
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Jun 22, 2007
For some reason cpanellogd always had huge memory usage in the realm of 40-90% when running logs for one particular site, which inturn sends the server load to 25-40.
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Jul 26, 2007
I was wondering is someone can shed some light on a curious situation for me. I am running a linux server (Gentoo) and the CPU usage spikes to 90-100% but the load of the server when viewed by top is only 0.4 - 1.5 (max). The memory is OK with .5 gig free and there is no paging going on. So my question is: Is this server over used or not?
Below is the output of top 3 times over aprox 2 min... please enlighten me... :-)
top - 17:39:57 up 3 days, 10 min, 1 user, load average: 0.55, 0.66, 0.66
Tasks: 66 total, 2 running, 64 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 27.3% us, 0.0% sy, 0.0% ni, 72.0% id, 0.7% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si
Mem: 2058848k total, 2037140k used, 21708k free, 176904k buffers
Swap: 2008116k total, 168k used, 2007948k free, 618380k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
5501 sdb 25 0 570m 202m 18m S 26.3 10.1 1076:22 kernel
5579 root 19 0 2107m 729m 33m S 1.0 36.3 188:28.30 java
4814 root 16 0 30336 2360 1832 R 0.3 0.1 0:00.04 sshd
1 root 16 0 2560 556 472 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.20 init
2 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 ksoftirqd/0
3 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 events/0
4 root 19 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khelper
5 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kthread
7 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:01.20 kblockd/0
10 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khubd
75 root 20 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 aio/0
74 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:17.43 kswapd0
660 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kseriod
716 root 16 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 scsi_eh_0
720 root 11 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ata/0
737 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:12.73 kjournald
788 root 21 -4 2560 512 420 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 udevd
4944 root 15 0 5024 824 596 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 syslog-ng
5357 root 16 0 17124 1772 1396 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 sshd
5370 root 16 0 56260 3704 2420 S 0.0 0.2 0:03.88 apache2
5437 ntp 16 0 15848 4656 3548 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.10 ntpd
5473 root 16 0 8956 788 644 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.04 cron
5483 apache 15 0 56120 3512 2236 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.00 apache2
5490 sdb 15 0 16992 1772 1476 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.27 vserver
5491 sdb 20 0 16992 1708 1416 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 vserver
5496 sdb 16 0 49444 7232 5928 S 0.0 0.4 0:00.74 kernel
5566 root 18 0 8736 1300 1076 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 run.sh
top - 17:40:39 up 3 days, 10 min, 1 user, load average: 0.55, 0.65, 0.65
Tasks: 66 total, 2 running, 64 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 95.0% us, 0.3% sy, 0.0% ni, 4.7% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si
Mem: 2058848k total, 2037264k used, 21584k free, 176908k buffers
Swap: 2008116k total, 168k used, 2007948k free, 618448k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
5501 sdb 25 0 570m 202m 18m S 83.6 10.1 1076:44 kernel
5579 root 19 0 2107m 729m 33m S 10.7 36.3 188:29.79 java
3738 sdb 15 0 23660 2056 1628 S 0.3 0.1 0:00.15 vserver
1 root 16 0 2560 556 472 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.20 init
2 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 ksoftirqd/0
3 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 events/0
4 root 19 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khelper
5 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kthread
7 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:01.20
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