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| occasional high loadavg without any noticeable cpu/memory/io load [message #46421] |
Mon, 21 May 2012 18:06  |
Rene Dokbua
Messages: 24
Registered: May 2012
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Junior Member |
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Hello,
I occasionally get this extreme load on one of our VPS servers. It is quite
large, 4 full E31230 cores, 4 GB RAM and hosting ca. 400 websites +
parked/addon/subdomains.
The hardware node has 12 active VPS servers and most of the time things are
chugging along just fine, something like this.
1401: 0.00 0.00 0.00 1/23 4561
1402: 0.02 0.05 0.05 1/57 16991
1404: 0.01 0.02 0.00 1/73 18863
1406: 0.07 0.13 0.06 1/39 31189
1407: 0.86 1.03 1.14 1/113 31460
1408: 0.17 0.17 0.18 1/79 32579
1409: 0.00 0.00 0.02 1/77 21784
1410: 0.01 0.02 0.00 1/60 7454
1413: 0.00 0.00 0.00 1/46 18579
1414: 0.00 0.00 0.00 1/41 23812
1415: 0.00 0.00 0.00 1/45 9831
1416: 0.05 0.02 0.00 1/59 11332
12 active
The problem VPS is 1407. As you can see below it only uses a bit of the cpu
and memory.
top - 17:34:12 up 32 days, 12:21, 0 users, load average: 0.78, 0.95, 1.09
Tasks: 102 total, 4 running, 90 sleeping, 0 stopped, 8 zombie
Cpu(s): 16.3%us, 2.9%sy, 0.4%ni, 78.5%id, 1.8%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si,
0.1%st
Mem: 4194304k total, 2550572k used, 1643732k free, 0k buffers
Swap: 8388608k total, 105344k used, 8283264k free, 1793828k cached
Also iostat and vmstat shows no particular io or swap activity.
Now for the problem. Every once in a while the loadavg of this particular
VPS shoots up to like crazy values, 30 or more and it becomes completely
sluggish. The odd thing is load goes up for the VPS server, and starts
spilling into other VPS serers on the same hardware node - but there are
still no particular cpu/memory/io usage going on that I can se. No
particular network activity. In this example load has fallen back to
around 10 but it was much higher earlier.
16:19:44 up 32 days, 11:19, 3 users, load average: 12.87, 19.11, 18.87
1401: 0.01 0.03 0.00 1/23 2876
1402: 0.00 0.11 0.13 1/57 15334
1404: 0.02 0.20 0.16 1/77 14918
1406: 0.01 0.13 0.10 1/39 29595
1407: 10.95 15.71 15.05 1/128 13950
1408: 0.36 0.52 0.57 1/81 27167
1409: 0.09 0.26 0.43 1/78 17851
1410: 0.09 0.17 0.18 1/61 4344
1413: 0.00 0.03 0.00 1/46 16539
1414: 0.01 0.01 0.00 1/41 22372
1415: 0.00 0.01 0.00 1/45 8404
1416: 0.05 0.10 0.11 1/58 9292
12 active
top - 16:20:02 up 32 days, 11:07, 0 users, load average: 9.14, 14.97,
14.82
Tasks: 135 total, 1 running, 122 sleeping, 0 stopped, 12 zombie
Cpu(s): 16.3%us, 2.9%sy, 0.4%ni, 78.5%id, 1.8%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si,
0.1%st
Mem: 4194304k total, 1173844k used, 3020460k free, 0k buffers
Swap: 8388608k total, 115576k used, 8273032k free, 725144k cache
Notice how cpu is plenty idle, and only 1/4 of the available memory is
being used.
http://wiki.openvz.org/Ploop/Why explains "One such property that deserves
a special item in this list is file system journal. While journal is a good
thing to have, because it helps to maintain file system integrity and
improve reboot times (by eliminating fsck in many cases), it is also a
bottleneck for containers. If one container will fill up in-memory journal
(with lots of small operations leading to file metadata updates, e.g. file
truncates), all the other containers I/O will block waiting for the journal
to be written to disk. In some extreme cases we saw up to 15 seconds of
such blockage.". The problem I noticed last much longer than 15 seconds
though - typically 15-30 minutes, then load goes back where it should be.
Any suggestions where I could look for the cause of this? It's not like it
happens everyday, maybe once or twice per month, but it's enough to cause
customers to complain.
Regards,
Rene
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| Re: occasional high loadavg without any noticeable cpu/memory/io load [message #46436 is a reply to message #46421] |
Tue, 22 May 2012 08:06  |
svensirk
Messages: 9
Registered: March 2012
Location: Hamburg
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Junior Member |
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Hi Rene,
Since CPU and MEM are fine it's most likely to be Disk-IO.
I have similar Problems with a Cluster Setup based on OpenVZ.
The problem is that our Storage is way to slow.
We have been accessing the storage via NFS and put all our CTs private
areas on it.
I noticed many times that one CT was doing a lot of disk IO and all
other were suffering from that... that even lead to total system
failures.
This has been solved by converting everything to ploop. Since then our
system is at least in a stable state.
IO Performance is still an issue but does not bring our system down.
You should give ploop a try :-) I am very happy with it.
best regards,
Sirk
2012/5/21 Rene Dokbua <openvz@dokbua.com>:
> Hello,
>
> I occasionally get this extreme load on one of our VPS servers. It is quite
> large, 4 full E31230 cores, 4 GB RAM and hosting ca. 400 websites +
> parked/addon/subdomains.
>
> The hardware node has 12 active VPS servers and most of the time things are
> chugging along just fine, something like this.
>
> 1401: 0.00 0.00 0.00 1/23 4561
> 1402: 0.02 0.05 0.05 1/57 16991
> 1404: 0.01 0.02 0.00 1/73 18863
> 1406: 0.07 0.13 0.06 1/39 31189
> 1407: 0.86 1.03 1.14 1/113 31460
> 1408: 0.17 0.17 0.18 1/79 32579
> 1409: 0.00 0.00 0.02 1/77 21784
> 1410: 0.01 0.02 0.00 1/60 7454
> 1413: 0.00 0.00 0.00 1/46 18579
> 1414: 0.00 0.00 0.00 1/41 23812
> 1415: 0.00 0.00 0.00 1/45 9831
> 1416: 0.05 0.02 0.00 1/59 11332
> 12 active
>
> The problem VPS is 1407. As you can see below it only uses a bit of the cpu
> and memory.
>
> top - 17:34:12 up 32 days, 12:21, 0 users, load average: 0.78, 0.95, 1.09
> Tasks: 102 total, 4 running, 90 sleeping, 0 stopped, 8 zombie
> Cpu(s): 16.3%us, 2.9%sy, 0.4%ni, 78.5%id, 1.8%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si,
> 0.1%st
> Mem: 4194304k total, 2550572k used, 1643732k free, 0k buffers
> Swap: 8388608k total, 105344k used, 8283264k free, 1793828k cached
>
> Also iostat and vmstat shows no particular io or swap activity.
>
> Now for the problem. Every once in a while the loadavg of this particular
> VPS shoots up to like crazy values, 30 or more and it becomes completely
> sluggish. The odd thing is load goes up for the VPS server, and starts
> spilling into other VPS serers on the same hardware node - but there are
> still no particular cpu/memory/io usage going on that I can se. No
> particular network activity. In this example load has fallen back to
> around 10 but it was much higher earlier.
>
> 16:19:44 up 32 days, 11:19, 3 users, load average: 12.87, 19.11, 18.87
>
> 1401: 0.01 0.03 0.00 1/23 2876
> 1402: 0.00 0.11 0.13 1/57 15334
> 1404: 0.02 0.20 0.16 1/77 14918
> 1406: 0.01 0.13 0.10 1/39 29595
> 1407: 10.95 15.71 15.05 1/128 13950
> 1408: 0.36 0.52 0.57 1/81 27167
> 1409: 0.09 0.26 0.43 1/78 17851
> 1410: 0.09 0.17 0.18 1/61 4344
> 1413: 0.00 0.03 0.00 1/46 16539
> 1414: 0.01 0.01 0.00 1/41 22372
> 1415: 0.00 0.01 0.00 1/45 8404
> 1416: 0.05 0.10 0.11 1/58 9292
> 12 active
>
> top - 16:20:02 up 32 days, 11:07, 0 users, load average: 9.14, 14.97,
> 14.82
> Tasks: 135 total, 1 running, 122 sleeping, 0 stopped, 12 zombie
> Cpu(s): 16.3%us, 2.9%sy, 0.4%ni, 78.5%id, 1.8%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si,
> 0.1%st
> Mem: 4194304k total, 1173844k used, 3020460k free, 0k buffers
> Swap: 8388608k total, 115576k used, 8273032k free, 725144k cache
>
> Notice how cpu is plenty idle, and only 1/4 of the available memory is being
> used.
>
> http://wiki.openvz.org/Ploop/Why explains "One such property that deserves a
> special item in this list is file system journal. While journal is a good
> thing to have, because it helps to maintain file system integrity and
> improve reboot times (by eliminating fsck in many cases), it is also a
> bottleneck for containers. If one container will fill up in-memory journal
> (with lots of small operations leading to file metadata updates, e.g. file
> truncates), all the other containers I/O will block waiting for the journal
> to be written to disk. In some extreme cases we saw up to 15 seconds of such
> blockage.". The problem I noticed last much longer than 15 seconds though
> - typically 15-30 minutes, then load goes back where it should be.
>
> Any suggestions where I could look for the cause of this? It's not like it
> happens everyday, maybe once or twice per month, but it's enough to cause
> customers to complain.
>
> Regards,
> Rene
>
>
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| RE: occasional high loadavg without any noticeable cpu/memory/io load [message #46437 is a reply to message #46421] |
Tue, 22 May 2012 08:15 |
Steffan
Messages: 6
Registered: February 2011
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Junior Member |
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Sorry dont have the answer for you
But can you tell me what command you used to see all loads on your node ?
Thanxs Steffan
Van: users-bounces@openvz.org [mailto:users-bounces@openvz.org] Namens Rene
Dokbua
Verzonden: maandag 21 mei 2012 20:07
Aan: users@openvz.org
Onderwerp: [Users] occasional high loadavg without any noticeable
cpu/memory/io load
Hello,
I occasionally get this extreme load on one of our VPS servers. It is quite
large, 4 full E31230 cores, 4 GB RAM and hosting ca. 400 websites +
parked/addon/subdomains.
The hardware node has 12 active VPS servers and most of the time things are
chugging along just fine, something like this.
1401: 0.00 0.00 0.00 1/23 4561
1402: 0.02 0.05 0.05 1/57 16991
1404: 0.01 0.02 0.00 1/73 18863
1406: 0.07 0.13 0.06 1/39 31189
1407: 0.86 1.03 1.14 1/113 31460
1408: 0.17 0.17 0.18 1/79 32579
1409: 0.00 0.00 0.02 1/77 21784
1410: 0.01 0.02 0.00 1/60 7454
1413: 0.00 0.00 0.00 1/46 18579
1414: 0.00 0.00 0.00 1/41 23812
1415: 0.00 0.00 0.00 1/45 9831
1416: 0.05 0.02 0.00 1/59 11332
12 active
The problem VPS is 1407. As you can see below it only uses a bit of the cpu
and memory.
top - 17:34:12 up 32 days, 12:21, 0 users, load average: 0.78, 0.95, 1.09
Tasks: 102 total, 4 running, 90 sleeping, 0 stopped, 8 zombie
Cpu(s): 16.3%us, 2.9%sy, 0.4%ni, 78.5%id, 1.8%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si,
0.1%st
Mem: 4194304k total, 2550572k used, 1643732k free, 0k buffers
Swap: 8388608k total, 105344k used, 8283264k free, 1793828k cached
Also iostat and vmstat shows no particular io or swap activity.
Now for the problem. Every once in a while the loadavg of this particular
VPS shoots up to like crazy values, 30 or more and it becomes completely
sluggish. The odd thing is load goes up for the VPS server, and starts
spilling into other VPS serers on the same hardware node - but there are
still no particular cpu/memory/io usage going on that I can se. No
particular network activity. In this example load has fallen back to
around 10 but it was much higher earlier.
16:19:44 up 32 days, 11:19, 3 users, load average: 12.87, 19.11, 18.87
1401: 0.01 0.03 0.00 1/23 2876
1402: 0.00 0.11 0.13 1/57 15334
1404: 0.02 0.20 0.16 1/77 14918
1406: 0.01 0.13 0.10 1/39 29595
1407: 10.95 15.71 15.05 1/128 13950
1408: 0.36 0.52 0.57 1/81 27167
1409: 0.09 0.26 0.43 1/78 17851
1410: 0.09 0.17 0.18 1/61 4344
1413: 0.00 0.03 0.00 1/46 16539
1414: 0.01 0.01 0.00 1/41 22372
1415: 0.00 0.01 0.00 1/45 8404
1416: 0.05 0.10 0.11 1/58 9292
12 active
top - 16:20:02 up 32 days, 11:07, 0 users, load average: 9.14, 14.97,
14.82
Tasks: 135 total, 1 running, 122 sleeping, 0 stopped, 12 zombie
Cpu(s): 16.3%us, 2.9%sy, 0.4%ni, 78.5%id, 1.8%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si,
0.1%st
Mem: 4194304k total, 1173844k used, 3020460k free, 0k buffers
Swap: 8388608k total, 115576k used, 8273032k free, 725144k cache
Notice how cpu is plenty idle, and only 1/4 of the available memory is being
used.
http://wiki.openvz.org/Ploop/Why explains "One such property that deserves a
special item in this list is file system journal. While journal is a good
thing to have, because it helps to maintain file system integrity and
improve reboot times (by eliminating fsck in many cases), it is also a
bottleneck for containers. If one container will fill up in-memory journal
(with lots of small operations leading to file metadata updates, e.g. file
truncates), all the other containers I/O will block waiting for the journal
to be written to disk. In some extreme cases we saw up to 15 seconds of such
blockage.". The problem I noticed last much longer than 15 seconds though
- typically 15-30 minutes, then load goes back where it should be.
Any suggestions where I could look for the cause of this? It's not like it
happens everyday, maybe once or twice per month, but it's enough to cause
customers to complain.
Regards,
Rene
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| Re: occasional high loadavg without any noticeable cpu/memory/io load [message #46438 is a reply to message #46437] |
Tue, 22 May 2012 09:06 |
Rene Dokbua
Messages: 24
Registered: May 2012
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Junior Member |
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Actually I made a small shell script that loops through the list of active
containers and outputs the content of each containers /proc/loadavg. It
started out as a bit more elaborate script that was intended to provide
some of the functionality of a script vzstat, that I used to use with
Virtuozzo.
You can download both scripts from
https://www.ourhelpdesk.net/downloads/z.tgz
On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 3:15 PM, Steffan <general@ziggo.nl> wrote:
> Sorry dont have the answer for you****
>
> But can you tell me what command you used to see all loads on your node ?*
> ***
>
> ** **
>
> Thanxs Steffan****
>
> ** **
>
> *Van:* users-bounces@openvz.org [mailto:users-bounces@openvz.org] *Namens
> *Rene Dokbua
> *Verzonden:* maandag 21 mei 2012 20:07
> *Aan:* users@openvz.org
> *Onderwerp:* [Users] occasional high loadavg without any noticeable
> cpu/memory/io load****
>
> ** **
>
> Hello,****
>
> ** **
>
> I occasionally get this extreme load on one of our VPS servers. It is
> quite large, 4 full E31230 cores, 4 GB RAM and hosting ca. 400 websites +
> parked/addon/subdomains.****
>
> ** **
>
> The hardware node has 12 active VPS servers and most of the time things
> are chugging along just fine, something like this.****
>
> ** **
>
> 1401: 0.00 0.00 0.00 1/23 4561****
>
> 1402: 0.02 0.05 0.05 1/57 16991****
>
> 1404: 0.01 0.02 0.00 1/73 18863****
>
> 1406: 0.07 0.13 0.06 1/39 31189****
>
> 1407: 0.86 1.03 1.14 1/113 31460****
>
> 1408: 0.17 0.17 0.18 1/79 32579****
>
> 1409: 0.00 0.00 0.02 1/77 21784****
>
> 1410: 0.01 0.02 0.00 1/60 7454****
>
> 1413: 0.00 0.00 0.00 1/46 18579****
>
> 1414: 0.00 0.00 0.00 1/41 23812****
>
> 1415: 0.00 0.00 0.00 1/45 9831****
>
> 1416: 0.05 0.02 0.00 1/59 11332****
>
> 12 active****
>
> ** **
>
> The problem VPS is 1407. As you can see below it only uses a bit of the
> cpu and memory. ****
>
> ** **
>
> top - 17:34:12 up 32 days, 12:21, 0 users, load average: 0.78, 0.95, 1.09
> ****
>
> Tasks: 102 total, 4 running, 90 sleeping, 0 stopped, 8 zombie****
>
> Cpu(s): 16.3%us, 2.9%sy, 0.4%ni, 78.5%id, 1.8%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si,
> 0.1%st****
>
> Mem: 4194304k total, 2550572k used, 1643732k free, 0k buffers**
> **
>
> Swap: 8388608k total, 105344k used, 8283264k free, 1793828k cached***
> *
>
> ** **
>
> Also iostat and vmstat shows no particular io or swap activity.****
>
> ** **
>
> Now for the problem. Every once in a while the loadavg of this particular
> VPS shoots up to like crazy values, 30 or more and it becomes completely
> sluggish. The odd thing is load goes up for the VPS server, and starts
> spilling into other VPS serers on the same hardware node - but there are
> still no particular cpu/memory/io usage going on that I can se. No
> particular network activity. In this example load has fallen back to
> around 10 but it was much higher earlier.****
>
> ** **
>
> 16:19:44 up 32 days, 11:19, 3 users, load average: 12.87, 19.11, 18.87*
> ***
>
> ** **
>
> 1401: 0.01 0.03 0.00 1/23 2876****
>
> 1402: 0.00 0.11 0.13 1/57 15334****
>
> 1404: 0.02 0.20 0.16 1/77 14918****
>
> 1406: 0.01 0.13 0.10 1/39 29595****
>
> 1407: 10.95 15.71 15.05 1/128 13950****
>
> 1408: 0.36 0.52 0.57 1/81 27167****
>
> 1409: 0.09 0.26 0.43 1/78 17851****
>
> 1410: 0.09 0.17 0.18 1/61 4344****
>
> 1413: 0.00 0.03 0.00 1/46 16539****
>
> 1414: 0.01 0.01 0.00 1/41 22372****
>
> 1415: 0.00 0.01 0.00 1/45 8404****
>
> 1416: 0.05 0.10 0.11 1/58 9292****
>
> 12 active****
>
> ** **
>
> top - 16:20:02 up 32 days, 11:07, 0 users, load average: 9.14, 14.97,
> 14.82****
>
> Tasks: 135 total, 1 running, 122 sleeping, 0 stopped, 12 zombie****
>
> Cpu(s): 16.3%us, 2.9%sy, 0.4%ni, 78.5%id, 1.8%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si,
> 0.1%st****
>
> Mem: 4194304k total, 1173844k used, 3020460k free, 0k buffers**
> **
>
> Swap: 8388608k total, 115576k used, 8273032k free, 725144k cache****
>
> ** **
>
> Notice how cpu is plenty idle, and only 1/4 of the available memory is
> being used.****
>
> ** **
>
> http://wiki.openvz.org/Ploop/Why explains "One such property that
> deserves a special item in this list is file system journal. While journal
> is a good thing to have, because it helps to maintain file system integrity
> and improve reboot times (by eliminating fsck in many cases), it is also a
> bottleneck for containers. If one container will fill up in-memory journal
> (with lots of small operations leading to file metadata updates, e.g. file
> truncates), all the other containers I/O will block waiting for the journal
> to be written to disk. In some extreme cases we saw up to 15 seconds of
> such blockage.". The problem I noticed last much longer than 15 seconds
> though - typically 15-30 minutes, then load goes back where it should be.*
> ***
>
> ** **
>
> Any suggestions where I could look for the cause of this? It's not like
> it happens everyday, maybe once or twice per month, but it's enough to
> cause customers to complain.****
>
> ** **
>
> Regards,
> Rene****
>
> ** **
>
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| Re: occasional high loadavg without any noticeable cpu/memory/io load [message #46439 is a reply to message #46436] |
Tue, 22 May 2012 09:16 |
Rene Dokbua
Messages: 24
Registered: May 2012
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Junior Member |
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Hi Sirk,
Thanks for your reply. I'm so pleased having found this mailing list after
having tried the forum, which seem to have very little activity!
Ploop is a great idea technically, but I'm a little concerned about the "
Warning: This is a new feature, not yet ready for production systems. Use
with caution." on the OpenVZ Wiki page, so I'm kinda waiting for the
green-light that it's ready for production environments.
It did occur to me that disk-IO could be the cause of the problem, but
iostat on the hardware node did not suggest any particular IO problems. I
still haven't found a way to see the IO activity within a container -
iostat just comes up blank when it's run within a container. Is there a
way?
We're not using any network storage with this server so that is not the
reason.
The server has 4 SATA-3 drives, with the root partition being on one drive,
the problem container alone on a second drive, and the remaining containers
on a third.
Best,
Rene
On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 3:06 PM, Sirk Johannsen <s.johannsen@satzmedia.de>wrote:
> Hi Rene,
>
> Since CPU and MEM are fine it's most likely to be Disk-IO.
> I have similar Problems with a Cluster Setup based on OpenVZ.
> The problem is that our Storage is way to slow.
> We have been accessing the storage via NFS and put all our CTs private
> areas on it.
> I noticed many times that one CT was doing a lot of disk IO and all
> other were suffering from that... that even lead to total system
> failures.
> This has been solved by converting everything to ploop. Since then our
> system is at least in a stable state.
> IO Performance is still an issue but does not bring our system down.
>
> You should give ploop a try :-) I am very happy with it.
>
> best regards,
>
> Sirk
>
> 2012/5/21 Rene Dokbua <openvz@dokbua.com>:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I occasionally get this extreme load on one of our VPS servers. It is
> quite
> > large, 4 full E31230 cores, 4 GB RAM and hosting ca. 400 websites +
> > parked/addon/subdomains.
> >
> > The hardware node has 12 active VPS servers and most of the time things
> are
> > chugging along just fine, something like this.
> >
> > 1401: 0.00 0.00 0.00 1/23 4561
> > 1402: 0.02 0.05 0.05 1/57 16991
> > 1404: 0.01 0.02 0.00 1/73 18863
> > 1406: 0.07 0.13 0.06 1/39 31189
> > 1407: 0.86 1.03 1.14 1/113 31460
> > 1408: 0.17 0.17 0.18 1/79 32579
> > 1409: 0.00 0.00 0.02 1/77 21784
> > 1410: 0.01 0.02 0.00 1/60 7454
> > 1413: 0.00 0.00 0.00 1/46 18579
> > 1414: 0.00 0.00 0.00 1/41 23812
> > 1415: 0.00 0.00 0.00 1/45 9831
> > 1416: 0.05 0.02 0.00 1/59 11332
> > 12 active
> >
> > The problem VPS is 1407. As you can see below it only uses a bit of the
> cpu
> > and memory.
> >
> > top - 17:34:12 up 32 days, 12:21, 0 users, load average: 0.78, 0.95,
> 1.09
> > Tasks: 102 total, 4 running, 90 sleeping, 0 stopped, 8 zombie
> > Cpu(s): 16.3%us, 2.9%sy, 0.4%ni, 78.5%id, 1.8%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si,
> > 0.1%st
> > Mem: 4194304k total, 2550572k used, 1643732k free, 0k buffers
> > Swap: 8388608k total, 105344k used, 8283264k free, 1793828k cached
> >
> > Also iostat and vmstat shows no particular io or swap activity.
> >
> > Now for the problem. Every once in a while the loadavg of this particular
> > VPS shoots up to like crazy values, 30 or more and it becomes completely
> > sluggish. The odd thing is load goes up for the VPS server, and starts
> > spilling into other VPS serers on the same hardware node - but there are
> > still no particular cpu/memory/io usage going on that I can se. No
> > particular network activity. In this example load has fallen back to
> > around 10 but it was much higher earlier.
> >
> > 16:19:44 up 32 days, 11:19, 3 users, load average: 12.87, 19.11, 18.87
> >
> > 1401: 0.01 0.03 0.00 1/23 2876
> > 1402: 0.00 0.11 0.13 1/57 15334
> > 1404: 0.02 0.20 0.16 1/77 14918
> > 1406: 0.01 0.13 0.10 1/39 29595
> > 1407: 10.95 15.71 15.05 1/128 13950
> > 1408: 0.36 0.52 0.57 1/81 27167
> > 1409: 0.09 0.26 0.43 1/78 17851
> > 1410: 0.09 0.17 0.18 1/61 4344
> > 1413: 0.00 0.03 0.00 1/46 16539
> > 1414: 0.01 0.01 0.00 1/41 22372
> > 1415: 0.00 0.01 0.00 1/45 8404
> > 1416: 0.05 0.10 0.11 1/58 9292
> > 12 active
> >
> > top - 16:20:02 up 32 days, 11:07, 0 users, load average: 9.14, 14.97,
> > 14.82
> > Tasks: 135 total, 1 running, 122 sleeping, 0 stopped, 12 zombie
> > Cpu(s): 16.3%us, 2.9%sy, 0.4%ni, 78.5%id, 1.8%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si,
> > 0.1%st
> > Mem: 4194304k total, 1173844k used, 3020460k free, 0k buffers
> > Swap: 8388608k total, 115576k used, 8273032k free, 725144k cache
> >
> > Notice how cpu is plenty idle, and only 1/4 of the available memory is
> being
> > used.
> >
> > http://wiki.openvz.org/Ploop/Why explains "One such property that
> deserves a
> > special item in this list is file system journal. While journal is a good
> > thing to have, because it helps to maintain file system integrity and
> > improve reboot times (by eliminating fsck in many cases), it is also a
> > bottleneck for containers. If one container will fill up in-memory
> journal
> > (with lots of small operations leading to file metadata updates, e.g.
> file
> > truncates), all the other containers I/O will block waiting for the
> journal
> > to be written to disk. In some extreme cases we saw up to 15 seconds of
> such
> > blockage.". The problem I noticed last much longer than 15 seconds
> though
> > - typically 15-30 minutes, then load goes back where it should be.
> >
> > Any suggestions where I could look for the cause of this? It's not like
> it
> > happens everyday, maybe once or twice per month, but it's enough to cause
> > customers to complain.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Rene
> >
> >
> --
> Satzmedia GmbH
>
> Altonaer Poststraße 9
> 22767 Hamburg
> Tel: +49 (0) 40 - 1 888 969 - 140
> Fax: +49 (0) 40 - 1 888 969 - 200
> E-Mail: s.johannsen@satzmedia.de
> E-Business-Lösungen: http://www.satzmedia.de
> Amtsgericht Hamburg, HRB 71729
> Ust-IDNr. DE201979921
> Geschäftsführer:
> Dipl.-Kfm. Christian Satz
> Dipl.-Inform. Markus Meyer-Westphal
>
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| Re: occasional high loadavg without any noticeable cpu/memory/io load [message #46440 is a reply to message #46439] |
Tue, 22 May 2012 09:50 |
svensirk
Messages: 9
Registered: March 2012
Location: Hamburg
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2012/5/22 Rene C. <openvz@dokbua.com>:
> Hi Sirk,
>
Hi Rene,
> Thanks for your reply. I'm so pleased having found this mailing list after
> having tried the forum, which seem to have very little activity!
>
True, but this list has helped me a lot as well :-)
> Ploop is a great idea technically, but I'm a little concerned about the "
> Warning: This is a new feature, not yet ready for production systems. Use
> with caution." on the OpenVZ Wiki page, so I'm kinda waiting for the
> green-light that it's ready for production environments.
>
If you want some practical information on ploop: We are using it in a
highly productive environment.
It was either, try ploop and hope it works, or have the systems fail
every 2nd day.
So we decided to use ploop and are more than happy.
It even solves a lot of issues we had with the private areas directly
on the nfs share.
But of course, thats totally up to you.
I started with only a few "unimportant" CTs and then merged everything
after a while (42 CTs).
> It did occur to me that disk-IO could be the cause of the problem, but
> iostat on the hardware node did not suggest any particular IO problems. I
> still haven't found a way to see the IO activity within a container - iostat
> just comes up blank when it's run within a container. Is there a way?
>
To be honest, I don't know.
iostat ist not working because you do not really have a device.
This ist handled the way with ploop sadly but could be modified I guess.
For ploop you have the ploop-stat command but that dosen't work as
expected for me :-)
> We're not using any network storage with this server so that is not the
> reason.
>
> The server has 4 SATA-3 drives, with the root partition being on one drive,
> the problem container alone on a second drive, and the remaining containers
> on a third.
So you have a different FileSystem for the "problem"-Container that is
even on a different disk ?
If that is the case, this CT should not affect the others at all in terms of IO.
best regards,
Sirk
>
> Best,
> Rene
>
> On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 3:06 PM, Sirk Johannsen <s.johannsen@satzmedia.de>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Rene,
>>
>> Since CPU and MEM are fine it's most likely to be Disk-IO.
>> I have similar Problems with a Cluster Setup based on OpenVZ.
>> The problem is that our Storage is way to slow.
>> We have been accessing the storage via NFS and put all our CTs private
>> areas on it.
>> I noticed many times that one CT was doing a lot of disk IO and all
>> other were suffering from that... that even lead to total system
>> failures.
>> This has been solved by converting everything to ploop. Since then our
>> system is at least in a stable state.
>> IO Performance is still an issue but does not bring our system down.
>>
>> You should give ploop a try :-) I am very happy with it.
>>
>> best regards,
>>
>> Sirk
>>
>> 2012/5/21 Rene Dokbua <openvz@dokbua.com>:
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > I occasionally get this extreme load on one of our VPS servers. It is
>> > quite
>> > large, 4 full E31230 cores, 4 GB RAM and hosting ca. 400 websites +
>> > parked/addon/subdomains.
>> >
>> > The hardware node has 12 active VPS servers and most of the time things
>> > are
>> > chugging along just fine, something like this.
>> >
>> > 1401: 0.00 0.00 0.00 1/23 4561
>> > 1402: 0.02 0.05 0.05 1/57 16991
>> > 1404: 0.01 0.02 0.00 1/73 18863
>> > 1406: 0.07 0.13 0.06 1/39 31189
>> > 1407: 0.86 1.03 1.14 1/113 31460
>> > 1408: 0.17 0.17 0.18 1/79 32579
>> > 1409: 0.00 0.00 0.02 1/77 21784
>> > 1410: 0.01 0.02 0.00 1/60 7454
>> > 1413: 0.00 0.00 0.00 1/46 18579
>> > 1414: 0.00 0.00 0.00 1/41 23812
>> > 1415: 0.00 0.00 0.00 1/45 9831
>> > 1416: 0.05 0.02 0.00 1/59 11332
>> > 12 active
>> >
>> > The problem VPS is 1407. As you can see below it only uses a bit of the
>> > cpu
>> > and memory.
>> >
>> > top - 17:34:12 up 32 days, 12:21, 0 users, load average: 0.78, 0.95,
>> > 1.09
>> > Tasks: 102 total, 4 running, 90 sleeping, 0 stopped, 8 zombie
>> > Cpu(s): 16.3%us, 2.9%sy, 0.4%ni, 78.5%id, 1.8%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si,
>> > 0.1%st
>> > Mem: 4194304k total, 2550572k used, 1643732k free, 0k buffers
>> > Swap: 8388608k total, 105344k used, 8283264k free, 1793828k cached
>> >
>> > Also iostat and vmstat shows no particular io or swap activity.
>> >
>> > Now for the problem. Every once in a while the loadavg of this
>> > particular
>> > VPS shoots up to like crazy values, 30 or more and it becomes completely
>> > sluggish. The odd thing is load goes up for the VPS server, and starts
>> > spilling into other VPS serers on the same hardware node - but there are
>> > still no particular cpu/memory/io usage going on that I can se. No
>> > particular network activity. In this example load has fallen back to
>> > around 10 but it was much higher earlier.
>> >
>> > 16:19:44 up 32 days, 11:19, 3 users, load average: 12.87, 19.11,
>> > 18.87
>> >
>> > 1401: 0.01 0.03 0.00 1/23 2876
>> > 1402: 0.00 0.11 0.13 1/57 15334
>> > 1404: 0.02 0.20 0.16 1/77 14918
>> > 1406: 0.01 0.13 0.10 1/39 29595
>> > 1407: 10.95 15.71 15.05 1/128 13950
>> > 1408: 0.36 0.52 0.57 1/81 27167
>> > 1409: 0.09 0.26 0.43 1/78 17851
>> > 1410: 0.09 0.17 0.18 1/61 4344
>> > 1413: 0.00 0.03 0.00 1/46 16539
>> > 1414: 0.01 0.01 0.00 1/41 22372
>> > 1415: 0.00 0.01 0.00 1/45 8404
>> > 1416: 0.05 0.10 0.11 1/58 9292
>> > 12 active
>> >
>> > top - 16:20:02 up 32 days, 11:07, 0 users, load average: 9.14, 14.97,
>> > 14.82
>> > Tasks: 135 total, 1 running, 122 sleeping, 0 stopped, 12 zombie
>> > Cpu(s): 16.3%us, 2.9%sy, 0.4%ni, 78.5%id, 1.8%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si,
>> > 0.1%st
>> > Mem: 4194304k total, 1173844k used, 3020460k free, 0k buffers
>> > Swap: 8388608k total, 115576k used, 8273032k free, 725144k cache
>> >
>> > Notice how cpu is plenty idle, and only 1/4 of the available memory is
>> > being
>> > used.
>> >
>> > http://wiki.openvz.org/Ploop/Why explains "One such property that
>> > deserves a
>> > special item in this list is file system journal. While journal is a
>> > good
>> > thing to have, because it helps to maintain file system integrity and
>> > improve reboot times (by eliminating fsck in many cases), it is also a
>> > bottleneck for containers. If one container will fill up in-memory
>> > journal
>> > (with lots of small operations leading to file metadata updates, e.g.
>> > file
>> > truncates), all the other containers I/O will block waiting for the
>> > journal
>> > to be written to disk. In some extreme cases we saw up to 15 seconds of
>> > such
>> > blockage.". The problem I noticed last much longer than 15 seconds
>> > though
>> > - typically 15-30 minutes, then load goes back where it should be.
>> >
>> > Any suggestions where I could look for the cause of this? It's not like
>> > it
>> > happens everyday, maybe once or twice per month, but it's enough to
>> > cause
>> > customers to complain.
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > Rene
>> >
>> >
>> --
>> Satzmedia GmbH
>>
>> Altonaer Poststraße 9
>> 22767 Hamburg
>> Tel: +49 (0) 40 - 1 888 969 - 140
>> Fax: +49 (0) 40 - 1 888 969 - 200
>> E-Mail: s.johannsen@satzmedia.de
>> E-Business-Lösungen: http://www.satzmedia.de
>> Amtsgericht Hamburg, HRB 71729
>> Ust-IDNr. DE201979921
>> Geschäftsführer:
>> Dipl.-Kfm. Christian Satz
>> Dipl.-Inform. Markus Meyer-Westphal
>>
>> --
>>
>>
>>
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Satzmedia GmbH
Altonaer Poststraße 9
22767 Hamburg
Tel: +49 (0) 40 - 1 888 969 - 140
Fax: +49 (0) 40 - 1 888 969 - 200
E-Mail: s.johannsen@satzmedia.de
E-Business-Lösungen: http://www.satzmedia.de
Amtsgericht Hamburg, HRB 71729
Ust-IDNr. DE201979921
Geschäftsführer:
Dipl.-Kfm. Christian Satz
Dipl.-Inform. Markus Meyer-Westphal
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| RE: occasional high loadavg without any noticeable cpu/memory/io load [message #46441 is a reply to message #46421] |
Tue, 22 May 2012 10:00 |
Esm
Messages: 15
Registered: August 2011
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Junior Member |
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Hi Rene,
Did you check the /proc/user_beancounters of that VPS? Sometimes a high
load could be caused by buffers that are full.
Hope it helpes you,
Kind Regards,
Esme de Wolf
Van: users-bounces@openvz.org [mailto:users-bounces@openvz.org] Namens Rene
Dokbua
Verzonden: maandag 21 mei 2012 20:07
Aan: users@openvz.org
Onderwerp: [Users] occasional high loadavg without any noticeable
cpu/memory/io load
Hello,
I occasionally get this extreme load on one of our VPS servers. It is quite
large, 4 full E31230 cores, 4 GB RAM and hosting ca. 400 websites +
parked/addon/subdomains.
The hardware node has 12 active VPS servers and most of the time things are
chugging along just fine, something like this.
1401: 0.00 0.00 0.00 1/23 4561
1402: 0.02 0.05 0.05 1/57 16991
1404: 0.01 0.02 0.00 1/73 18863
1406: 0.07 0.13 0.06 1/39 31189
1407: 0.86 1.03 1.14 1/113 31460
1408: 0.17 0.17 0.18 1/79 32579
1409: 0.00 0.00 0.02 1/77 21784
1410: 0.01 0.02 0.00 1/60 7454
1413: 0.00 0.00 0.00 1/46 18579
1414: 0.00 0.00 0.00 1/41 23812
1415: 0.00 0.00 0.00 1/45 9831
1416: 0.05 0.02 0.00 1/59 11332
12 active
The problem VPS is 1407. As you can see below it only uses a bit of the cpu
and memory.
top - 17:34:12 up 32 days, 12:21, 0 users, load average: 0.78, 0.95, 1.09
Tasks: 102 total, 4 running, 90 sleeping, 0 stopped, 8 zombie
Cpu(s): 16.3%us, 2.9%sy, 0.4%ni, 78.5%id, 1.8%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si,
0.1%st
Mem: 4194304k total, 2550572k used, 1643732k free, 0k buffers
Swap: 8388608k total, 105344k used, 8283264k free, 1793828k cached
Also iostat and vmstat shows no particular io or swap activity.
Now for the problem. Every once in a while the loadavg of this particular
VPS shoots up to like crazy values, 30 or more and it becomes completely
sluggish. The odd thing is load goes up for the VPS server, and starts
spilling into other VPS serers on the same hardware node - but there are
still no particular cpu/memory/io usage going on that I can se. No
particular network activity. In this example load has fallen back to
around 10 but it was much higher earlier.
16:19:44 up 32 days, 11:19, 3 users, load average: 12.87, 19.11, 18.87
1401: 0.01 0.03 0.00 1/23 2876
1402: 0.00 0.11 0.13 1/57 15334
1404: 0.02 0.20 0.16 1/77 14918
1406: 0.01 0.13 0.10 1/39 29595
1407: 10.95 15.71 15.05 1/128 13950
1408: 0.36 0.52 0.57 1/81 27167
1409: 0.09 0.26 0.43 1/78 17851
1410: 0.09 0.17 0.18 1/61 4344
1413: 0.00 0.03 0.00 1/46 16539
1414: 0.01 0.01 0.00 1/41 22372
1415: 0.00 0.01 0.00 1/45 8404
1416: 0.05 0.10 0.11 1/58 9292
12 active
top - 16:20:02 up 32 days, 11:07, 0 users, load average: 9.14, 14.97,
14.82
Tasks: 135 total, 1 running, 122 sleeping, 0 stopped, 12 zombie
Cpu(s): 16.3%us, 2.9%sy, 0.4%ni, 78.5%id, 1.8%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si,
0.1%st
Mem: 4194304k total, 1173844k used, 3020460k free, 0k buffers
Swap: 8388608k total, 115576k used, 8273032k free, 725144k cache
Notice how cpu is plenty idle, and only 1/4 of the available memory is being
used.
http://wiki.openvz.org/Ploop/Why explains "One such property that deserves a
special item in this list is file system journal. While journal is a good
thing to have, because it helps to maintain file system integrity and
improve reboot times (by eliminating fsck in many cases), it is also a
bottleneck for containers. If one container will fill up in-memory journal
(with lots of small operations leading to file metadata updates, e.g. file
truncates), all the other containers I/O will block waiting for the journal
to be written to disk. In some extreme cases we saw up to 15 seconds of such
blockage.". The problem I noticed last much longer than 15 seconds though
- typically 15-30 minutes, then load goes back where it should be.
Any suggestions where I could look for the cause of this? It's not like it
happens everyday, maybe once or twice per month, but it's enough to cause
customers to complain.
Regards,
Rene
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| Re: occasional high loadavg without any noticeable cpu/memory/io load [message #46448 is a reply to message #46440] |
Tue, 22 May 2012 10:27 |
Rene Dokbua
Messages: 24
Registered: May 2012
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Junior Member |
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Hi Sirk,
> If you want some practical information on ploop: We are using it in a
> highly productive environment.
> It was either, try ploop and hope it works, or have the systems fail
> every 2nd day.
> So we decided to use ploop and are more than happy.
> It even solves a lot of issues we had with the private areas directly
> on the nfs share.
> But of course, thats totally up to you.
> I started with only a few "unimportant" CTs and then merged everything
> after a while (42 CTs).
>
Thanks for the info, much appreciated!
Maybe a little off topic, but I am curious to know: At the moment I find
it very convenient to go directly into a containers filesystem from the
hardware node - i.e. something like /vz/private/xxx/var/log/... etc -
Would I be correct in presuming that by using ploop this will no longer be
possible? I know I could just setup a test system and try it out but if
you know already it would save me some time ;)
> So you have a different FileSystem for the "problem"-Container that is
> even on a different disk ?
> If that is the case, this CT should not affect the others at all in terms
> of IO.
>
>
Indeed, this is the only container on that filesystem and that physical
drive. This time there were no "spill over" but previous times when load
hit 50 or more the load certainly did spill into other containers.
Best,
Rene
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| Re: occasional high loadavg without any noticeable cpu/memory/io load [message #46454 is a reply to message #46452] |
Tue, 22 May 2012 11:05 |
Kirill Korotaev
Messages: 137
Registered: January 2006
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Senior Member |
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Looks like in your case you've hit physpages limit.
In such situations VPS behaves as a standalone machine - it starts to swap out (though "virtually") and process stuck in D state (swap in / swap out),
which contributes to loadavg.
So either increase memory limits for your VPS or kill/tune the memory hungry workload.
Note: loadavg can also increase due to CPU limits as processes are delayed when overuse their CPU.
Thanks,
Kirill
On May 22, 2012, at 14:49 , Rene C. wrote:
Hi Esme,
> Did you check the /proc/user_beancounters of that VPS? Sometime’s a high load could be caused by buffers that are full.
Thanks for the suggestion, much appreciated!
I didn't think of checking at the time I'm afraid. I suppose since the container has not been rebooted since, the beancounters should still show any problems encountered at the time right?
Below is the user_beancounters of the problem CT. I notice physpages and dcachesize have maxheld values very close to limits (even if failcnt is zero) could that have been the cause?
uid resource held maxheld barrier limit failcnt
1407: kmemsize 252703307 1124626432 1932525568 2147483648 0
lockedpages 0 15 524288 524288 0
privvmpages 893372 5683554 9223372036854775807 9223372036854775807 0
shmpages 23 7399 9223372036854775807 9223372036854775807 0
dummy 0 0 0 0 0
numproc 136 480 9223372036854775807 9223372036854775807 0
physpages 733468 1048591 0 1048576 0
vmguarpages 0 0 0 9223372036854775807 0
oomguarpages 137691 676209 0 9223372036854775807 0
numtcpsock 101 459 9223372036854775807 9223372036854775807 0
numflock 7 37 9223372036854775807 9223372036854775807 0
numpty 1 4 9223372036854775807 9223372036854775807 0
numsiginfo 0 66 9223372036854775807 9223372036854775807 0
tcpsndbuf 4024896 34884168 9223372036854775807 9223372036854775807 0
tcprcvbuf 1654784 7520256 9223372036854775807 9223372036854775807 0
othersockbuf 195136 3887232 9223372036854775807 9223372036854775807 0
dgramrcvbuf 0 155848 9223372036854775807 9223372036854775807 0
numothersock 130 346 9223372036854775807 9223372036854775807 0
dcachesize 222868425 1073741824 965738496 1073741824 0
numfile 3853 12765 9223372036854775807 9223372036854775807 0
dummy 0 0 0 0 0
dummy 0 0 0 0 0
dummy 0 0 0 0 0
numiptent 197 197 9223372036854775807 9223372036854775807 0
I'm not that familiar with the nitty-gritties of the beancounters but these are the values I have in the 1407.conf file.
PHYSPAGES="0:4096M"
SWAPPAGES="0:8192M"
KMEMSIZE="1843M:2048M"
DCACHESIZE="921M:1024M"
LOCKEDPAGES="2048M"
PRIVVMPAGES="unlimited"
SHMPAGES="unlimited"
NUMPROC="unlimited"
VMGUARPAGES="0:unlimited"
OOMGUARPAGES="0:unlimited"
NUMTCPSOCK="unlimited"
NUMFLOCK="unlimited"
NUMPTY="unlimited"
NUMSIGINFO="unlimited"
TCPSNDBUF="unlimited"
TCPRCVBUF="unlimited"
OTHERSOCKBUF="unlimited"
DGRAMRCVBUF="unlimited"
NUMOTHERSOCK="unlimited"
NUMFILE="unlimited"
NUMIPTENT="unlimited"
When user_beancounters physpage limit is 1048576, with PHYSPAGES set to 4GB, then the held value of 733468 should correspond to about 3GB, right? But top only shows about 1.5GB used at the same time - how is that possible?
dcachesize I think is filesystem stuff? But there seems to be plenty of resources there;
# df -i
Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on
/dev/simfs 20000000 3046139 16953861 16% /
none 524288 109 524179 1% /dev
# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/simfs 492G 156G 312G 34% /
none 2.0G 4.0K 2.0G 1% /dev
Best,
Rene
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| RE: occasional high loadavg without any noticeable cpu/memory/io load [message #46457 is a reply to message #46454] |
Tue, 22 May 2012 11:59 |
Esm
Messages: 15
Registered: August 2011
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Junior Member |
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I also think that these UBC settings are not consistent. Especially when you
have all containers configured with these same UBC settings you will have
soon or later problems.
See: http://wiki.openvz.org/UBC_consistency_check and other pages on the
WIKI.
Kind Regards,
Esme
Van: users-bounces@openvz.org [mailto:users-bounces@openvz.org] Namens
Kirill Korotaev
Verzonden: dinsdag 22 mei 2012 13:05
Aan: users@openvz.org users@openvz.org; Rene C.
Onderwerp: Re: [Users] occasional high loadavg without any noticeable
cpu/memory/io load
Looks like in your case you've hit physpages limit.
In such situations VPS behaves as a standalone machine - it starts to swap
out (though "virtually") and process stuck in D state (swap in / swap out),
which contributes to loadavg.
So either increase memory limits for your VPS or kill/tune the memory hungry
workload.
Note: loadavg can also increase due to CPU limits as processes are delayed
when overuse their CPU.
Thanks,
Kirill
On May 22, 2012, at 14:49 , Rene C. wrote:
Hi Esme,
> Did you check the /proc/user_beancounters of that VPS? Sometimes a high
load could be caused by buffers that are full.
Thanks for the suggestion, much appreciated!
I didn't think of checking at the time I'm afraid. I suppose since the
container has not been rebooted since, the beancounters should still show
any problems encountered at the time right?
Below is the user_beancounters of the problem CT. I notice physpages and
dcachesize have maxheld values very close to limits (even if failcnt is
zero) could that have been the cause?
uid resource held maxheld
barrier limit failcnt
1407: kmemsize 252703307 1124626432
1932525568 2147483648 0
lockedpages 0 15
524288 524288 0
privvmpages 893372 5683554
9223372036854775807 9223372036854775807 0
shmpages 23 7399
9223372036854775807 9223372036854775807 0
dummy 0 0
0 0 0
numproc 136 480
9223372036854775807 9223372036854775807 0
physpages 733468 1048591
0 1048576 0
vmguarpages 0 0
0 9223372036854775807 0
oomguarpages 137691 676209
0 9223372036854775807 0
numtcpsock 101 459
9223372036854775807 9223372036854775807 0
numflock 7 37
9223372036854775807 9223372036854775807 0
numpty 1 4
9223372036854775807 9223372036854775807 0
numsiginfo 0 66
9223372036854775807 9223372036854775807 0
tcpsndbuf 4024896 34884168
9223372036854775807 9223372036854775807 0
tcprcvbuf 1654784 7520256
9223372036854775807 9223372036854775807 0
othersockbuf 195136 3887232
9223372036854775807 9223372036854775807 0
dgramrcvbuf 0 155848
9223372036854775807 9223372036854775807 0
numothersock 130 346
9223372036854775807 9223372036854775807 0
dcachesize 222868425 1073741824
965738496 1073741824 0
numfile 3853 12765
9223372036854775807 9223372036854775807 0
dummy 0 0
0 0 0
dummy 0 0
0 0 0
dummy 0 0
0 0 0
numiptent 197 197
9223372036854775807 9223372036854775807 0
I'm not that familiar with the nitty-gritties of the beancounters but these
are the values I have in the 1407.conf file.
PHYSPAGES="0:4096M"
SWAPPAGES="0:8192M"
KMEMSIZE="1843M:2048M"
DCACHESIZE="921M:1024M"
LOCKEDPAGES="2048M"
PRIVVMPAGES="unlimited"
SHMPAGES="unlimited"
NUMPROC="unlimited"
VMGUARPAGES="0:unlimited"
OOMGUARPAGES="0:unlimited"
NUMTCPSOCK="unlimited"
NUMFLOCK="unlimited"
NUMPTY="unlimited"
NUMSIGINFO="unlimited"
TCPSNDBUF="unlimited"
TCPRCVBUF="unlimited"
OTHERSOCKBUF="unlimited"
DGRAMRCVBUF="unlimited"
NUMOTHERSOCK="unlimited"
NUMFILE="unlimited"
NUMIPTENT="unlimited"
When user_beancounters physpage limit is 1048576, with PHYSPAGES set to 4GB,
then the held value of 733468 should correspond to about 3GB, right? But
top only shows about 1.5GB used at the same time - how is that possible?
dcachesize I think is filesystem stuff? But there seems to be plenty of
resources there;
# df -i
Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on
/dev/simfs 20000000 3046139 16953861 16% /
none 524288 109 524179 1% /dev
# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/simfs 492G 156G 312G 34% /
none 2.0G 4.0K 2.0G 1% /dev
Best,
Rene
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| Re: occasional high loadavg without any noticeable cpu/memory/io load [message #46458 is a reply to message #46448] |
Tue, 22 May 2012 12:01 |
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2012/5/22 Rene C. <openvz@dokbua.com>:
> Hi Sirk,
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>>
>> If you want some practical information on ploop: We are using it in a
>> highly productive environment.
>> It was either, try ploop and hope it works, or have the systems fail
>> every 2nd day.
>> So we decided to use ploop and are more than happy.
>> It even solves a lot of issues we had with the private areas directly
>> on the nfs share.
>> But of course, thats totally up to you.
>> I started with only a few "unimportant" CTs and then merged everything
>> after a while (42 CTs).
>
>
> Thanks for the info, much appreciated!
>
> Maybe a little off topic, but I am curious to know: At the moment I find it
> very convenient to go directly into a containers filesystem from the
> hardware node - i.e. something like /vz/private/xxx/var/log/... etc - Would
> I be correct in presuming that by using ploop this will no longer be
> possible? I know I could just setup a test system and try it out but if you
> know already it would save me some time ;)
Only partially correct :-)
You can enter the filesystem of a CT when it's mounted. Meaning - you
can enter the root directory when the CT is running.
If the CT is shut down you always have the possibility to mount the
ploop file to any directory you desire.
>
>>
>> So you have a different FileSystem for the "problem"-Container that is
>> even on a different disk ?
>> If that is the case, this CT should not affect the others at all in terms
>> of IO.
>>
>
> Indeed, this is the only container on that filesystem and that physical
> drive. This time there were no "spill over" but previous times when load
> hit 50 or more the load certainly did spill into other containers.
>
> Best,
> Rene
>
>
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| Re: occasional high loadavg without any noticeable cpu/memory/io load [message #46460 is a reply to message #46459] |
Tue, 22 May 2012 12:35 |
Kirill Korotaev
Messages: 137
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On May 22, 2012, at 16:17 , Rene C. wrote:
On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 6:59 PM, Esmé de Wolf <esme@elements.nl<mailto:esme@elements.nl>> wrote:
I also think that these UBC settings are not consistent. Especially when you have all containers configured with these same UBC settings you will have soon or later problems.
See: http://wiki.openvz.org/UBC_consistency_check and other pages on the WIKI.
Kind Regards,
Esme
I read that UBC page already and used it to set these values.
No, all my containers do not have the same UBC settings, they were set depending on how much resources each container should have.
Please let me know where any of the values in my conf file conflicts with the UBC recommendations.
I do understand that they may need to be fine tuned in each case, but that's basically what this question is about :)
So basically at this time I have two questions I don't understand:
1) how is it possible to have physpages hit the limit when top never shows more than about 75-80% of the memory used?
once again: top shows current (immedeate) values.
maxheld in user_beancounters shows you *maximum* over time.
There is an API for resetting it AFAIR, but no user-space tool in OpenVZ :(((
2) how did dcachesize hit limit when both df -i and df -h shows plenty of resources - and haven't been close to limits?
dcachesize has nothing to do with df.
it's kernel memory used for paths and pinned by opened files and CWD.
You can safely increase it if needed. It's just DoS protection.
Could the values in the beancounter file be old? Is there a way to reset them (without restarting the CT) ?
Best,
Rene
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| Re: occasional high loadavg without any noticeable cpu/memory/io load [message #46485 is a reply to message #46448] |
Wed, 23 May 2012 07:14 |
Martin Dobrev
Messages: 14
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Hi,
?? 22.5.2012 ?. 13:27 ?., Rene C. ??????:
> Hi Sirk,
>
>
> If you want some practical information on ploop: We are using it in a
> highly productive environment.
> It was either, try ploop and hope it works, or have the systems fail
> every 2nd day.
> So we decided to use ploop and are more than happy.
> It even solves a lot of issues we had with the private areas directly
> on the nfs share.
> But of course, thats totally up to you.
> I started with only a few "unimportant" CTs and then merged everything
> after a while (42 CTs).
>
>
> Thanks for the info, much appreciated!
>
> Maybe a little off topic, but I am curious to know: At the moment I
> find it very convenient to go directly into a containers filesystem
> from the hardware node - i.e. something like
> /vz/private/xxx/var/log/... etc - Would I be correct in presuming
> that by using ploop this will no longer be possible? I know I could
> just setup a test system and try it out but if you know already it
> would save me some time ;)
>
It's not very practical to access the containers from the VZ/private
mount point, as it breaks for example the quota stats of the container.
If you still want to do things there better go for the VZ/root mount
point. (Advice given to me by one of the now-a-days developer of
Viruozzo) And as you already mentioned ploop, as far as I know the
ploop-container will be mounted to VZ/root of the CT and you'll still
have access to the info in there.
>
> So you have a different FileSystem for the "problem"-Container that is
> even on a different disk ?
> If that is the case, this CT should not affect the others at all
> in terms of IO.
>
>
> Indeed, this is the only container on that filesystem and that
> physical drive. This time there were no "spill over" but previous
> times when load hit 50 or more the load certainly did spill into
> other containers.
> Best,
> Rene
>
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| Re: occasional high loadavg without any noticeable cpu/memory/io load [message #46651 is a reply to message #46438] |
Wed, 30 May 2012 15:09 |
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On 05/22/2012 01:06 PM, Rene C. wrote:
>
> Actually I made a small shell script that loops through the list of
> active containers and outputs the content of each containers
> /proc/loadavg. It started out as a bit more elaborate script that was
> intended to provide some of the functionality of a script vzstat, that
> I used to use with Virtuozzo.
>
> You can download both scripts from
> https://www.ourhelpdesk.net/downloads/z.tgz
vzlist have laverage field that might be of use. I.e.
vzlist -o ctid,laverage
>
>
>
> On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 3:15 PM, Steffan <general@ziggo.nl
> <mailto:general@ziggo.nl>> wrote:
>
> Sorry dont have the answer for you
>
> But can you tell me what command you used to see all loads on your
> node ?
>
> Thanxs Steffan
>
> *Van:*users-bounces@openvz.org <mailto:users-bounces@openvz.org>
> [mailto:users-bounces@openvz.org
> <mailto:users-bounces@openvz.org>] *Namens *Rene Dokbua
> *Verzonden:* maandag 21 mei 2012 20:07
> *Aan:* users@openvz.org <mailto:users@openvz.org>
> *Onderwerp:* [Users] occasional high loadavg without any
> noticeable cpu/memory/io load
>
> Hello,
>
> I occasionally get this extreme load on one of our VPS servers. It
> is quite large, 4 full E31230 cores, 4 GB RAM and hosting ca. 400
> websites + parked/addon/subdomains.
>
> The hardware node has 12 active VPS servers and most of the time
> things are chugging along just fine, something like this.
>
> 1401: 0.00 0.00 0.00 1/23 4561
>
> 1402: 0.02 0.05 0.05 1/57 16991
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> 1404: 0.01 0.02 0.00 1/73 18863
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> 1406: 0.07 0.13 0.06 1/39 31189
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> 1407: 0.86 1.03 1.14 1/113 31460
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> 1408: 0.17 0.17 0.18 1/79 32579
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> 1409: 0.00 0.00 0.02 1/77 21784
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> 1410: 0.01 0.02 0.00 1/60 7454
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> 1413: 0.00 0.00 0.00 1/46 18579
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> 1414: 0.00 0.00 0.00 1/41 23812
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> 1415: 0.00 0.00 0.00 1/45 9831
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> 1416: 0.05 0.02 0.00 1/59 11332
>
> 12 active
>
> The problem VPS is 1407. As you can see below it only uses a bit
> of the cpu and memory.
>
> top - 17:34:12 up 32 days, 12:21, 0 users, load average: 0.78,
> 0.95, 1.09
>
> Tasks: 102 total, 4 running, 90 sleeping, 0 stopped, 8 zombie
>
> Cpu(s): 16.3%us, 2.9%sy, 0.4%ni, 78.5%id, 1.8%wa, 0.0%hi,
> 0.0%si, 0.1%st
>
> Mem: 4194304k total, 2550572k used, 1643732k free, 0k
> buffers
>
> Swap: 8388608k total, 105344k used, 8283264k free, 1793828k
> cached
>
> Also iostat and vmstat shows no particular io or swap activity.
>
> Now for the problem. Every once in a while the loadavg of this
> particular VPS shoots up to like crazy values, 30 or more and it
> becomes completely sluggish. The odd thing is load goes up for the
> VPS server, and starts spilling into other VPS serers on the same
> hardware node - but there are still no particular cpu/memory/io
> usage going on that I can se. No particular network activity.
> In this example load has fallen back to around 10 but it was much
> higher earlier.
>
> 16:19:44 up 32 days, 11:19, 3 users, load average: 12.87,
> 19.11, 18.87
>
> 1401: 0.01 0.03 0.00 1/23 2876
>
> 1402: 0.00 0.11 0.13 1/57 15334
>
> 1404: 0.02 0.20 0.16 1/77 14918
>
> 1406: 0.01 0.13 0.10 1/39 29595
>
> 1407: 10.95 15.71 15.05 1/128 13950
>
> 1408: 0.36 0.52 0.57 1/81 27167
>
> 1409: 0.09 0.26 0.43 1/78 17851
>
> 1410: 0.09 0.17 0.18 1/61 4344
>
> 1413: 0.00 0.03 0.00 1/46 16539
>
> 1414: 0.01 0.01 0.00 1/41 22372
>
> 1415: 0.00 0.01 0.00 1/45 8404
>
> 1416: 0.05 0.10 0.11 1/58 9292
>
> 12 active
>
> top - 16:20:02 up 32 days, 11:07, 0 users, load average: 9.14,
> 14.97, 14.82
>
> Tasks: 135 total, 1 running, 122 sleeping, 0 stopped, 12 zombie
>
> Cpu(s): 16.3%us, 2.9%sy, 0.4%ni, 78.5%id, 1.8%wa, 0.0%hi,
> 0.0%si, 0.1%st
>
> Mem: 4194304k total, 1173844k used, 3020460k free, 0k
> buffers
>
> Swap: 8388608k total, 115576k used, 8273032k free, 725144k cache
>
> Notice how cpu is plenty idle, and only 1/4 of the available
> memory is being used.
>
> http://wiki.openvz.org/Ploop/Why explains "One such property that
> deserves a special item in this list is file system journal. While
> journal is a good thing to have, because it helps to maintain file
> system integrity and improve reboot times (by eliminating fsck in
> many cases), it is also a bottleneck for containers. If one
> container will fill up in-memory journal (with lots of small
> operations leading to file metadata updates, e.g. file truncates),
> all the other containers I/O will block waiting for the journal to
> be written to disk. In some extreme cases we saw up to 15 seconds
> of such blockage.". The problem I noticed last much longer than
> 15 seconds though - typically 15-30 minutes, then load goes back
> where it should be.
>
> Any suggestions where I could look for the cause of this? It's
> not like it happens everyday, maybe once or twice per month, but
> it's enough to cause customers to complain.
>
> Regards,
> Rene
>
>
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| Re: occasional high loadavg without any noticeable cpu/memory/io load [message #47080 is a reply to message #46652] |
Wed, 04 July 2012 09:16 |
Rene Dokbua
Messages: 24
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Today I again had a VE that went up to a relative high load for no apparent
reason.
Below are the details for the hardware node, followed by the high-load
container.
I realize it's not the latest kernel, but a reboot takes half an hour (from
first VE goes down to last VE is back up, assuming everything goes well and
no FSCK is forced) so we only reboot into new kernels when there is a
really serious reason for it or the server crashes - but I don't see
anything in the kernel updates since our current kernel that would address
this issue anyway.
Why does the load in this container suddenly go up like that? Websites
hosted by the container becomes very sluggish, so it is a real problem.
It isn't just a problem with this container - or even this hardware node
for that reason, I occasionally see it with containers on other hardware
nodes as well. One idea I brought up before was that perhaps it's the file
system journal, as suggested in http://wiki.openvz.org/Ploop/Why - but I
think that would affect all containers on that file system, not just a
single container?
--- HARDWARE NODE ---
# uname -a
Linux server15.hardwarenode.com 2.6.32-042stab049.6 #1 SMP Mon Feb 6
19:17:43 MSK 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
# rpm -q sl-release
sl-release-6.1-2.x86_64
# top -cbn1 | head -17
top - 21:00:02 up 123 days, 15:31, 1 user, load average: 0.97, 2.70, 2.37
Tasks: 886 total, 6 running, 880 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 8.4%us, 1.7%sy, 0.0%ni, 86.3%id, 3.5%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.1%si,
0.0%st
Mem: 16420716k total, 15566264k used, 854452k free, 1477372k buffers
Swap: 16777184k total, 623672k used, 16153512k free, 4578176k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
94153 27 20 0 164m 41m 3392 S 150.9 0.3 50575:37
/usr/libexec/mys
9178 27 20 0 159m 29m 3000 S 72.6 0.2 1284:50
/usr/libexec/mysq
567031 apache 20 0 40296 15m 3588 S 17.2 0.1 0:00.09
/usr/sbin/httpd
567382 root 20 0 15672 1820 864 R 5.7 0.0 0:00.04 top -cbn1
38 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 1.9 0.0 2:55.25 [events/3]
41 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 1.9 0.0 0:29.00 [events/6]
566362 apache 20 0 43240 19m 4448 R 1.9 0.1 0:01.04
/usr/sbin/httpd
566857 apache 20 0 55248 11m 3456 R 1.9 0.1 0:00.05
/usr/sbin/httpd
566918 apache 20 0 42596 17m 3704 S 1.9 0.1 0:00.15
/usr/sbin/httpd
567033 apache 20 0 39784 14m 3468 S 1.9 0.1 0:00.01
/usr/sbin/httpd
# vzlist -o ctid,laverage
CTID LAVERAGE
1501 0.00/0.05/0.02
1502 0.00/0.00/0.00
1503 0.08/0.03/0.01
1504 0.00/0.00/0.00
1505 8.29/6.04/3.67
1506 27.11/16.97/7.89
1507 0.00/0.00/0.00
1508 0.19/0.06/0.01
1509 0.07/0.03/0.00
1510 0.02/0.02/0.00
1512 0.00/0.00/0.00
1514 0.00/0.00/0.00
# iostat -xN
Linux 2.6.32-042stab049.6 (server15.hardwarenode.com) 07/03/12
_x86_64_ (8 CPU)
avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle
8.41 0.04 1.75 3.51 0.00 86.28
Device: rrqm/s wrqm/s r/s w/s rsec/s wsec/s avgrq-sz
avgqu-sz await svctm %util
sdd 0.76 56.58 0.59 0.59 20.27 457.28 402.66
0.25 211.66 4.03 0.48
sdc 1.72 27.94 17.20 16.16 887.30 336.18 36.68
0.02 12.71 5.23 17.45
sdb 1.65 27.79 19.48 12.95 975.43 318.64 39.91
0.09 15.22 3.77 12.23
sda 0.01 0.16 0.10 0.24 1.95 2.79 13.79
0.00 7.06 4.16 0.14
vg01-swap 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 8.00
0.00 3.68 2.22 0.00
vg01-root 0.00 0.00 0.11 0.35 1.94 2.78 10.30
0.02 38.30 3.12 0.14
vg04-swap 0.00 0.00 1.30 0.22 10.41 1.80 8.00
0.01 9.28 1.44 0.22
vg04-vz 0.00 0.00 0.05 56.94 9.86 455.49 8.17
0.01 0.18 0.05 0.27
vg03-swap 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 8.00
0.00 6.72 1.10 0.00
vg03-vz 0.00 0.00 18.98 42.41 887.30 336.18 19.93
0.39 6.33 2.84 17.45
vg02-swap 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 8.00
0.00 7.03 0.89 0.00
vg02-vz 0.00 0.00 21.19 39.91 975.43 318.64 21.18
0.15 8.99 2.00 12.23
vg01-vz 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 7.98
0.00 17.73 17.73 0.00
--- CONTAINER ---
# top -cbn1 | head -100
top - 21:00:04 up 123 days, 15:25, 0 users, load average: 27.11, 16.97,
7.89
Tasks: 86 total, 2 running, 84 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 1.4%us, 0.2%sy, 0.0%ni, 98.1%id, 0.1%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si,
0.2%st
Mem: 655360k total, 316328k used, 339032k free, 0k buffers
Swap: 1310720k total, 68380k used, 1242340k free, 58268k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
916 mysql 20 0 159m 29m 3000 S 79.3 4.6 1284:51
/usr/libexec/mysqld
1 root 20 0 2156 92 64 S 0.0 0.0 0:36.50 init [3]
2 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 [kthreadd/1506]
3 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 [khelper/1506]
97 root 16 -4 2244 8 4 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 /sbin/udevd -d
634 root 20 0 1812 212 136 S 0.0 0.0 2:39.88 syslogd -m 0
667 root 20 0 7180 268 168 S 0.0 0.0 1:01.55 /usr/sbin/sshd
676 root 20 0 2832 392 304 S 0.0 0.1 0:15.13 xinetd
-stayalive -
690 root 20 0 6040 124 72 S 0.0 0.0 0:02.45
/usr/lib/courier-im
693 root 20 0 4872 252 200 S 0.0 0.0 0:01.94
/usr/sbin/courierlo
701 root 20 0 6040 124 72 S 0.0 0.0 0:06.34
/usr/lib/courier-im
703 root 20 0 4872 256 200 S 0.0 0.0 0:03.09
/usr/sbin/courierlo
709 root 20 0 6040 128 72 S 0.0 0.0 0:18.15
/usr/lib/courier-im
711 root 20 0 4872 256 200 S 0.0 0.0 0:09.15
/usr/sbin/courierlo
718 root 20 0 6040 124 72 S 0.0 0.0 0:05.68
/usr/lib/courier-im
720 root 20 0 4872 252 200 S 0.0 0.0 0:02.54
/usr/sbin/courierlo
730 qmails 20 0 1796 224 144 S 0.0 0.0 1:27.21 qmail-send
732 qmaill 20 0 1752 244 192 S 0.0 0.0 0:22.64 splogger qmail
733 root 20 0 1780 140 64 S 0.0 0.0 0:07.85 qmail-lspawn |
/usr
734 qmailr 20 0 1776 148 76 S 0.0 0.0 0:14.07 qmail-rspawn
735 qmailq 20 0 1748 104 68 S 0.0 0.0 0:14.01 qmail-clean
781 root 20 0 51880 4364 196 S 0.0 0.7 1:35.02 /usr/sbin/httpd
828 named 20 0 44104 5708 1112 S 0.0 0.9 10:10.53
/usr/sbin/named -u
866 root 20 0 3708 8 4 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 /bin/sh
/usr/bin/my
981 root 20 0 33912 3756 916 S 0.0 0.6 10:55.30 /usr/bin/spamd
--us
1107 xfs 20 0 3392 72 40 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.09 xfs -droppriv
-daem
1115 root 20 0 5672 8 4 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00
/usr/sbin/saslauthd
1116 root 20 0 5672 8 4 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00
/usr/sbin/saslauthd
1122 root 20 0 22992 1868 1084 S 0.0 0.3 2:09.79
/usr/bin/sw-engine
1123 root 20 0 27328 1508 1160 S 0.0 0.2 6:06.30
/usr/local/psa/admi
7251 root 20 0 4488 192 136 S 0.0 0.0 0:22.85 crond
9463 apache 20 0 59184 14m 4356 S 0.0 2.3 0:05.10 /usr/sbin/httpd
10512 apache 20 0 42316 2504 84 S 0.0 0.4 0:00.91 /usr/sbin/httpd
12090 apache 20 0 56964 14m 4492 S 0.0 2.2 0:04.48 /usr/sbin/httpd
12682 apache 20 0 61060 17m 4516 S 0.0 2.7 0:02.45 /usr/sbin/httpd
13870 sw-cp-se 20 0 7852 1932 16 S 0.0 0.3 1:19.03
/usr/sbin/sw-cp-ser
17443 apache 20 0 62416 17m 4436 S 0.0 2.7 0:05.27 /usr/sbin/httpd
17461 apache 20 0 52788 10m 4480 S 0.0 1.6 0:02.24 /usr/sbin/httpd
20430 apache 20 0 62164 17m 4356 S 0.0 2.7 0:04.25 /usr/sbin/httpd
23539 popuser 20 0 37612 25m 2328 S 0.0 3.9 0:01.50 spamd child
23924 apache 20 0 58004 15m 5536 S 0.0 2.4 0:01.56 /usr/sbin/httpd
26361 apache 20 0 54496 11m 3864 S 0.0 1.8 0:01.35 /usr/sbin/httpd
26366 apache 20 0 52944 9.8m 3892 S 0.0 1.5 0:01.45 /usr/sbin/httpd
26964 apache 20 0 59184 14m 4316 S 0.0 2.3 0:07.26 /usr/sbin/httpd
27096 apache 20 0 53728 10m 3868 S 0.0 1.6 0:00.33 /usr/sbin/httpd
27102 apache 20 0 54736 11m 3780 S 0.0 1.8 0:00.15 /usr/sbin/httpd
27103 apache 20 0 54480 11m 3784 S 0.0 1.7 0:00.11 /usr/sbin/httpd
27115 apache 20 0 57064 12m 3816 S 0.0 2.0 0:00.32 /usr/sbin/httpd
27118 apache 20 0 53728 10m 3884 S 0.0 1.6 0:01.21 /usr/sbin/httpd
27120 apache 20 0 52184 8376 3120 S 0.0 1.3 0:00.00 /usr/sbin/httpd
27129 apache 20 0 52168 8072 2960 S 0.0 1.2 0:00.00 /usr/sbin/httpd
27139 apache 20 0 53304 9840 3744 S 0.0 1.5 0:01.08 /usr/sbin/httpd
27140 apache 20 0 53000 9.8m 3832 S 0.0 1.5 0:00.66 /usr/sbin/httpd
27144 apache 20 0 52168 8072 2960 S 0.0 1.2 0:00.00 /usr/sbin/httpd
27147 apache 20 0 53252 12m 5536 S 0.0 1.9 0:00.50 /usr/sbin/httpd
27149 apache 20 0 52980 9924 3740 S 0.0 1.5 0:00.17 /usr/sbin/httpd
27153 apache 20 0 53728 10m 3836 S 0.0 1.6 0:00.49 /usr/sbin/httpd
27164 apache 20 0 55224 11m 3812 S 0.0 1.9 0:00.47 /usr/sbin/httpd
27171 apache 20 0 52916 9776 3708 S 0.0 1.5 0:00.16 /usr/sbin/httpd
27172 apache 20 0 52916 9452 3436 S 0.0 1.4 0:00.17 /usr/sbin/httpd
27173 apache 20 0 55340 11m 3720 S 0.0 1.8 0:00.08 /usr/sbin/httpd
27179 apache 20 0 52020 7764 2716 S 0.0 1.2 0:00.00 /usr/sbin/httpd
27182 apache 20 0 52020 7764 2716 S 0.0 1.2 0:00.00 /usr/sbin/httpd
27185 apache 20 0 55224 1
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| Re: occasional high loadavg without any noticeable cpu/memory/io load [message #47126 is a reply to message #47080] |
Tue, 10 July 2012 14:40 |
Rene Dokbua
Messages: 24
Registered: May 2012
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Junior Member |
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No takers for this one?
If I missed to provide any important information please let me know. The
issue happens regularly on several hardware nodes so if I missed anything I
can check it next time it happens.
On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 4:16 PM, Rene C. <openvz@dokbua.com> wrote:
> Today I again had a VE that went up to a relative high load for no
> apparent reason.
>
> Below are the details for the hardware node, followed by the high-load
> container.
>
> I realize it's not the latest kernel, but a reboot takes half an hour
> (from first VE goes down to last VE is back up, assuming everything goes
> well and no FSCK is forced) so we only reboot into new kernels when there
> is a really serious reason for it or the server crashes - but I don't see
> anything in the kernel updates since our current kernel that would address
> this issue anyway.
>
> Why does the load in this container suddenly go up like that? Websites
> hosted by the container becomes very sluggish, so it is a real problem.
>
> It isn't just a problem with this container - or even this hardware node
> for that reason, I occasionally see it with containers on other hardware
> nodes as well. One idea I brought up before was that perhaps it's the file
> system journal, as suggested in http://wiki.openvz.org/Ploop/Why - but I
> think that would affect all containers on that file system, not just a
> single container?
>
> --- HARDWARE NODE ---
>
> # uname -a
> Linux server15.hardwarenode.com 2.6.32-042stab049.6 #1 SMP Mon Feb 6
> 19:17:43 MSK 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> # rpm -q sl-release
> sl-release-6.1-2.x86_64
>
> # top -cbn1 | head -17
> top - 21:00:02 up 123 days, 15:31, 1 user, load average: 0.97, 2.70, 2.37
> Tasks: 886 total, 6 running, 880 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
> Cpu(s): 8.4%us, 1.7%sy, 0.0%ni, 86.3%id, 3.5%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.1%si,
> 0.0%st
> Mem: 16420716k total, 15566264k used, 854452k free, 1477372k buffers
> Swap: 16777184k total, 623672k used, 16153512k free, 4578176k cached
>
> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
> 94153 27 20 0 164m 41m 3392 S 150.9 0.3 50575:37
> /usr/libexec/mys
> 9178 27 20 0 159m 29m 3000 S 72.6 0.2 1284:50
> /usr/libexec/mysq
> 567031 apache 20 0 40296 15m 3588 S 17.2 0.1 0:00.09
> /usr/sbin/httpd
> 567382 root 20 0 15672 1820 864 R 5.7 0.0 0:00.04 top -cbn1
> 38 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 1.9 0.0 2:55.25 [events/3]
> 41 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 1.9 0.0 0:29.00 [events/6]
> 566362 apache 20 0 43240 19m 4448 R 1.9 0.1 0:01.04
> /usr/sbin/httpd
> 566857 apache 20 0 55248 11m 3456 R 1.9 0.1 0:00.05
> /usr/sbin/httpd
> 566918 apache 20 0 42596 17m 3704 S 1.9 0.1 0:00.15
> /usr/sbin/httpd
> 567033 apache 20 0 39784 14m 3468 S 1.9 0.1 0:00.01
> /usr/sbin/httpd
>
> # vzlist -o ctid,laverage
> CTID LAVERAGE
> 1501 0.00/0.05/0.02
> 1502 0.00/0.00/0.00
> 1503 0.08/0.03/0.01
> 1504 0.00/0.00/0.00
> 1505 8.29/6.04/3.67
> 1506 27.11/16.97/7.89
> 1507 0.00/0.00/0.00
> 1508 0.19/0.06/0.01
> 1509 0.07/0.03/0.00
> 1510 0.02/0.02/0.00
> 1512 0.00/0.00/0.00
> 1514 0.00/0.00/0.00
>
> # iostat -xN
> Linux 2.6.32-042stab049.6 (server15.hardwarenode.com) 07/03/12
> _x86_64_ (8 CPU)
>
> avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle
> 8.41 0.04 1.75 3.51 0.00 86.28
>
> Device: rrqm/s wrqm/s r/s w/s rsec/s wsec/s avgrq-sz
> avgqu-sz await svctm %util
> sdd 0.76 56.58 0.59 0.59 20.27 457.28 402.66
> 0.25 211.66 4.03 0.48
> sdc 1.72 27.94 17.20 16.16 887.30 336.18 36.68
> 0.02 12.71 5.23 17.45
> sdb 1.65 27.79 19.48 12.95 975.43 318.64 39.91
> 0.09 15.22 3.77 12.23
> sda 0.01 0.16 0.10 0.24 1.95 2.79 13.79
> 0.00 7.06 4.16 0.14
> vg01-swap 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 8.00
> 0.00 3.68 2.22 0.00
> vg01-root 0.00 0.00 0.11 0.35 1.94 2.78 10.30
> 0.02 38.30 3.12 0.14
> vg04-swap 0.00 0.00 1.30 0.22 10.41 1.80 8.00
> 0.01 9.28 1.44 0.22
> vg04-vz 0.00 0.00 0.05 56.94 9.86 455.49 8.17
> 0.01 0.18 0.05 0.27
> vg03-swap 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 8.00
> 0.00 6.72 1.10 0.00
> vg03-vz 0.00 0.00 18.98 42.41 887.30 336.18 19.93
> 0.39 6.33 2.84 17.45
> vg02-swap 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 8.00
> 0.00 7.03 0.89 0.00
> vg02-vz 0.00 0.00 21.19 39.91 975.43 318.64 21.18
> 0.15 8.99 2.00 12.23
> vg01-vz 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 7.98
> 0.00 17.73 17.73 0.00
>
> --- CONTAINER ---
>
> # top -cbn1 | head -100
> top - 21:00:04 up 123 days, 15:25, 0 users, load average: 27.11, 16.97,
> 7.89
> Tasks: 86 total, 2 running, 84 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
> Cpu(s): 1.4%us, 0.2%sy, 0.0%ni, 98.1%id, 0.1%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si,
> 0.2%st
> Mem: 655360k total, 316328k used, 339032k free, 0k buffers
> Swap: 1310720k total, 68380k used, 1242340k free, 58268k cached
>
> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
> 916 mysql 20 0 159m 29m 3000 S 79.3 4.6 1284:51
> /usr/libexec/mysqld
> 1 root 20 0 2156 92 64 S 0.0 0.0 0:36.50 init [3]
> 2 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00
> [kthreadd/1506]
> 3 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 [khelper/1506]
> 97 root 16 -4 2244 8 4 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 /sbin/udevd -d
> 634 root 20 0 1812 212 136 S 0.0 0.0 2:39.88 syslogd -m 0
> 667 root 20 0 7180 268 168 S 0.0 0.0 1:01.55 /usr/sbin/sshd
> 676 root 20 0 2832 392 304 S 0.0 0.1 0:15.13 xinetd
> -stayalive -
> 690 root 20 0 6040 124 72 S 0.0 0.0 0:02.45
> /usr/lib/courier-im
> 693 root 20 0 4872 252 200 S 0.0 0.0 0:01.94
> /usr/sbin/courierlo
> 701 root 20 0 6040 124 72 S 0.0 0.0 0:06.34
> /usr/lib/courier-im
> 703 root 20 0 4872 256 200 S 0.0 0.0 0:03.09
> /usr/sbin/courierlo
> 709 root 20 0 6040 128 72 S 0.0 0.0 0:18.15
> /usr/lib/courier-im
> 711 root 20 0 4872 256 200 S 0.0 0.0 0:09.15
> /usr/sbin/courierlo
> 718 root 20 0 6040 124 72 S 0.0 0.0 0:05.68
> /usr/lib/courier-im
> 720 root 20 0 4872 252 200 S 0.0 0.0 0:02.54
> /usr/sbin/courierlo
> 730 qmails 20 0 1796 224 144 S 0.0 0.0 1:27.21 qmail-send
> 732 qmaill 20 0 1752 244 192 S 0.0 0.0 0:22.64 splogger qmail
> 733 root 20 0 1780 140 64 S 0.0 0.0 0:07.85 qmail-lspawn
> | /usr
> 734 qmailr 20 0 1776 148 76 S 0.0 0.0 0:14.07 qmail-rspawn
> 735 qmailq 20 0 1748 104 68 S 0.0 0.0 0:14.01 qmail-clean
> 781 root 20 0 51880 4364 196 S 0.0 0.7 1:35.02
> /usr/sbin/httpd
> 828 named 20 0 44104 5708 1112 S 0.0 0.9 10:10.53
> /usr/sbin/named -u
> 866 root 20 0 3708 8 4 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 /bin/sh
> /usr/bin/my
> 981 root 20 0 33912 3756 916 S 0.0 0.6 10:55.30
> /usr/bin/spamd --us
> 1107 xfs 20 0 3392 72 40 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.09 xfs -droppriv
> -daem
> 1115 root 20 0 5672 8 4 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00
> /usr/sbin/saslauthd
> 1116 root 20 0 5672 8 4 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00
> /usr/sbin/saslauthd
> 1122 root 20 0 22992 1868 1084 S 0.0 0.3 2:09.79
> /usr/bin/sw-engine
> 1123 root 20 0 27328 1508 1160 S 0.0 0.2 6:06.30
> /usr/local/psa/admi
> 7251 root 20 0 4488 192 136 S 0.0 0.0 0:22.85 crond
> 9463 apache 20 0 59184 14m 4356 S 0.0 2.3 0:05.10
> /usr/sbin/httpd
> 10512 apache 20 0 42316 2504 84 S 0.0 0.4 0:00.91
> /usr/sbin/httpd
> 12090 apache 20 0 56964 14m 4492 S 0.0 2.2 0:04.48
> /usr/sbin/httpd
> 12682 apache 20 0 61060 17m 4516 S 0.0 2.7 0:02.45
> /usr/sbin/httpd
> 13870 sw-cp-se 20 0 7852 1932 16 S 0.0 0.3 1:19.03
> /usr/sbin/sw-cp-ser
> 17443 apache 20 0 62416 17m 4436 S 0.0 2.7 0:05.27
> /usr/sbin/httpd
> 17461 apache 20 0 52788 10m 4480 S 0.0 1.6 0:02.24
> /usr/sbin/httpd
> 20430 apache 20 0 62164 17m 4356 S 0.0 2.7 0:04.25
> /usr/sbin/httpd
> 23539 popuser 20 0 37612 25m 2328 S 0.0 3.9 0:01.50 spamd child
> 23924 apache 20 0 58004 15m 5536 S 0.0 2.4 0:01.56
> /usr/sbin/httpd
> 26361 apache 20 0 54496 11m 3864 S 0.0 1.8 0:01.35
> /usr/sbin/httpd
> 26366 apache 20 0 52944 9.8m 3892 S 0.0 1.5 0:01.45
> /usr/sbin/httpd
> 26964 apache 20 0 59184 14m 4316 S 0.0 2.3 0:07.26
> /usr/sbin/httpd
> 27096 apache 20 0 53728 10m 3868 S 0.0 1.6 0:00.33
> /usr/sbin/httpd
> 27102 apache 20 0 54736 11m 3780 S 0.0 1.8 0:00.15
> /usr/sbin/httpd
> 27103 apache 20 0 54480 11m 3784 S 0.0
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| Re: occasional high loadavg without any noticeable cpu/memory/io load [message #47135 is a reply to message #47126] |
Tue, 10 July 2012 16:34 |
Kirill Korotaev
Messages: 137
Registered: January 2006
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Senior Member |
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I can take a look if you give me access to node.
If agree - send it privately, w/o users@ on CC.
Kirill
On Jul 10, 2012, at 18:40 , Rene C. wrote:
No takers for this one?
If I missed to provide any important information please let me know. The issue happens regularly on several hardware nodes so if I missed anything I can check it next time it happens.
On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 4:16 PM, Rene C. <openvz@dokbua.com<mailto:openvz@dokbua.com>> wrote:
Today I again had a VE that went up to a relative high load for no apparent reason.
Below are the details for the hardware node, followed by the high-load container.
I realize it's not the latest kernel, but a reboot takes half an hour (from first VE goes down to last VE is back up, assuming everything goes well and no FSCK is forced) so we only reboot into new kernels when there is a really serious reason for it or the server crashes - but I don't see anything in the kernel updates since our current kernel that would address this issue anyway.
Why does the load in this container suddenly go up like that? Websites hosted by the container becomes very sluggish, so it is a real problem.
It isn't just a problem with this container - or even this hardware node for that reason, I occasionally see it with containers on other hardware nodes as well. One idea I brought up before was that perhaps it's the file system journal, as suggested in http://wiki.openvz.org/Ploop/Why - but I think that would affect all containers on that file system, not just a single container?
--- HARDWARE NODE ---
# uname -a
Linux server15.hardwarenode.com<http://server15.hardwarenode.com/> 2.6.32-042stab049.6 #1 SMP Mon Feb 6 19:17:43 MSK 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
# rpm -q sl-release
sl-release-6.1-2.x86_64
# top -cbn1 | head -17
top - 21:00:02 up 123 days, 15:31, 1 user, load average: 0.97, 2.70, 2.37
Tasks: 886 total, 6 running, 880 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 8.4%us, 1.7%sy, 0.0%ni, 86.3%id, 3.5%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.1%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 16420716k total, 15566264k used, 854452k free, 1477372k buffers
Swap: 16777184k total, 623672k used, 16153512k free, 4578176k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
94153 27 20 0 164m 41m 3392 S 150.9 0.3 50575:37 /usr/libexec/mys
9178 27 20 0 159m 29m 3000 S 72.6 0.2 1284:50 /usr/libexec/mysq
567031 apache 20 0 40296 15m 3588 S 17.2 0.1 0:00.09 /usr/sbin/httpd
567382 root 20 0 15672 1820 864 R 5.7 0.0 0:00.04 top -cbn1
38 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 1.9 0.0 2:55.25 [events/3]
41 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 1.9 0.0 0:29.00 [events/6]
566362 apache 20 0 43240 19m 4448 R 1.9 0.1 0:01.04 /usr/sbin/httpd
566857 apache 20 0 55248 11m 3456 R 1.9 0.1 0:00.05 /usr/sbin/httpd
566918 apache 20 0 42596 17m 3704 S 1.9 0.1 0:00.15 /usr/sbin/httpd
567033 apache 20 0 39784 14m 3468 S 1.9 0.1 0:00.01 /usr/sbin/httpd
# vzlist -o ctid,laverage
CTID LAVERAGE
1501 0.00/0.05/0.02
1502 0.00/0.00/0.00
1503 0.08/0.03/0.01
1504 0.00/0.00/0.00
1505 8.29/6.04/3.67
1506 27.11/16.97/7.89
1507 0.00/0.00/0.00
1508 0.19/0.06/0.01
1509 0.07/0.03/0.00
1510 0.02/0.02/0.00
1512 0.00/0.00/0.00
1514 0.00/0.00/0.00
# iostat -xN
Linux 2.6.32-042stab049.6 (server15.hardwarenode.com<http://server15.hardwarenode.com/>) 07/03/12 _x86_64_ (8 CPU)
avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle
8.41 0.04 1.75 3.51 0.00 86.28
Device: rrqm/s wrqm/s r/s w/s rsec/s wsec/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz await svctm %util
sdd 0.76 56.58 0.59 0.59 20.27 457.28 402.66 0.25 211.66 4.03 0.48
sdc 1.72 27.94 17.20 16.16 887.30 336.18 36.68 0.02 12.71 5.23 17.45
sdb 1.65 27.79 19.48 12.95 975.43 318.64 39.91 0.09 15.22 3.77 12.23
sda 0.01 0.16 0.10 0.24 1.95 2.79 13.79 0.00 7.06 4.16 0.14
vg01-swap 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 8.00 0.00 3.68 2.22 0.00
vg01-root 0.00 0.00 0.11 0.35 1.94 2.78 10.30 0.02 38.30 3.12 0.14
vg04-swap 0.00 0.00 1.30 0.22 10.41 1.80 8.00 0.01 9.28 1.44 0.22
vg04-vz 0.00 0.00 0.05 56.94 9.86 455.49 8.17 0.01 0.18 0.05 0.27
vg03-swap 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 8.00 0.00 6.72 1.10 0.00
vg03-vz 0.00 0.00 18.98 42.41 887.30 336.18 19.93 0.39 6.33 2.84 17.45
vg02-swap 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 8.00 0.00 7.03 0.89 0.00
vg02-vz 0.00 0.00 21.19 39.91 975.43 318.64 21.18 0.15 8.99 2.00 12.23
vg01-vz 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 7.98 0.00 17.73 17.73 0.00
--- CONTAINER ---
# top -cbn1 | head -100
top - 21:00:04 up 123 days, 15:25, 0 users, load average: 27.11, 16.97, 7.89
Tasks: 86 total, 2 running, 84 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 1.4%us, 0.2%sy, 0.0%ni, 98.1%id, 0.1%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.2%st
Mem: 655360k total, 316328k used, 339032k free, 0k buffers
Swap: 1310720k total, 68380k used, 1242340k free, 58268k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
916 mysql 20 0 159m 29m 3000 S 79.3 4.6 1284:51 /usr/libexec/mysqld
1 root 20 0 2156 92 64 S 0.0 0.0 0:36.50 init [3]
2 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 [kthreadd/1506]
3 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 [khelper/1506]
97 root 16 -4 2244 8 4 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 /sbin/udevd -d
634 root 20 0 1812 212 136 S 0.0 0.0 2:39.88 syslogd -m 0
667 root 20 0 7180 268 168 S 0.0 0.0 1:01.55 /usr/sbin/sshd
676 root 20 0 2832 392 304 S 0.0 0.1 0:15.13 xinetd -stayalive -
690 root 20 0 6040 124 72 S 0.0 0.0 0:02.45 /usr/lib/courier-im
693 root 20 0 4872 252 200 S 0.0 0.0 0:01.94 /usr/sbin/courierlo
701 root 20 0 6040 124 72 S 0.0 0.0 0:06.34 /usr/lib/courier-im
703 root 20 0 4872 256 200 S 0.0 0.0 0:03.09 /usr/sbin/courierlo
709 root 20 0 6040 128 72 S 0.0 0.0 0:18.15 /usr/lib/courier-im
711 root 20 0 4872 256 200 S 0.0 0.0 0:09.15 /usr/sbin/courierlo
718 root 20 0 6040 124 72 S 0.0 0.0 0:05.68 /usr/lib/courier-im
720 root 20 0 4872 252 200 S 0.0 0.0 0:02.54 /usr/sbin/courierlo
730 qmails 20 0 1796 224 144 S 0.0 0.0 1:27.21 qmail-send
732 qmaill 20 0 1752 244 192 S 0.0 0.0 0:22.64 splogger qmail
733 root 20 0 1780 140 64 S 0.0 0.0 0:07.85 qmail-lspawn | /usr
734 qmailr 20 0 1776 148 76 S 0.0 0.0 0:14.07 qmail-rspawn
735 qmailq 20 0 1748 104 68 S 0.0 0.0 0:14.01 qmail-clean
781 root 20 0 51880 4364 196 S 0.0 0.7 1:35.02 /usr/sbin/httpd
828 named 20 0 44104 5708 1112 S 0.0 0.9 10:10.53 /usr/sbin/named -u
866 root 20 0 3708 8 4 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/my
981 root 20 0 33912 3756 916 S 0.0 0.6 10:55.30 /usr/bin/spamd --us
1107 xfs 20 0 3392 72 40 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.09 xfs -droppriv -daem
1115 root 20 0 5672 8 4 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 /usr/sbin/saslauthd
1116 root 20 0 5672 8 4 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 /usr/sbin/saslauthd
1122 root 20 0 22992 1868 1084 S 0.0 0.3 2:09.79 /usr/bin/sw-engine
1123 root 20 0 27328 1508 1160 S 0.0 0.2 6:06.30 /usr/local/psa/admi
7251 root 20 0 4488 192 136 S 0.0 0.0 0:22.85 crond
9463 apache 20 0 59184 14m 4356 S 0.0 2.3 0:05.10 /usr/sbin/httpd
10512 apache 20 0 42316 2504 84 S 0.0 0.4 0:00.91 /usr/sbin/httpd
12090 apache 20 0 56964 14m 4492 S 0.0 2.2 0:04.48 /usr/sbin/httpd
12682 apache 20 0 61060 17m 4516 S 0.0 2.7 0:02.45 /usr/sbin/httpd
13870 sw-cp-se 20 0 7852 1932 16 S 0.0 0.3 1:19.03 /usr/sbin/sw-cp-ser
17443 apache 20 0 62416 17m 4436 S 0.0 2.7 0:05.27 /usr/sbin/httpd
17461 apache 20 0 52788 10m 4480 S 0.0 1.6 0:02.24 /usr/sbin/httpd
20430 apache 20 0 62164 17m 4356 S 0.0 2.7 0:04.25 /usr/sbin/httpd
23539 popuser 20 0 37612 25m 2328 S 0.0 3.9 0:01.50 spamd child
23924 apache 20 0 58004 15m 5536 S 0.0 2.4 0:01.56 /usr/sbin/httpd
26361 apache 20 0 54496 11m 3864 S 0.0 1.8 0:01.35 /usr/sbin/httpd
26366 apache 20 0 52944 9.8m 3892 S 0.0 1.5 0:01.45 /usr/sbin/httpd
26964 apache 20 0 59184 14m 4316 S 0.0 2.3 0:07.26 /usr/sbin/httpd
27096 apache 20 0 53728 10m 3868 S 0.0 1.6 0:00.33 /usr/sbin/httpd
27102 apache 20 0 54736 11m 3780 S 0.0 1.8 0:00.15 /usr/sbin/httpd
27103 apache 20 0 54480 11m 3784 S 0.0 1.7 0:00.11 /usr/sbin/httpd
27115 apache 20 0 57064 12m 3816 S 0.0 2.0 0:00.32 /usr/sbin/httpd
27118 apache 20 0 53728 10m 3884 S 0.0 1.6 0:01.21 /usr/sbin/httpd
27120 apache 20 0 52184 8376 3120 S 0.0 1.3 0:00.00 /usr/sbin/httpd
27129 apache 20 0 52168 8072 2960 S 0.0 1.2 0:00.00 /usr/sbin/httpd
27139 apache 20 0 53304 9840 3744 S 0.0 1.5 0:01.08 /usr/sbin/httpd
27140 apache 20 0 53000 9.8m 3832 S 0.0 1.5 0:00.66 /usr/sbin/httpd
27144 apache 20 0 52168 8072 2960 S 0.0 1.2 0:00.00 /usr/sbin/httpd
27147 apache 20 0 53252 12m 5536 S 0.0 1.9 0:00.50 /usr/sbin/httpd
27149 apache 20 0 52980 9924 3740 S 0.0 1.5 0:00.17 /usr/sbin/httpd
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| Re: occasional high loadavg without any noticeable cpu/memory/io load [message #47136 is a reply to message #47135] |
Tue, 10 July 2012 18:36 |
Rene Dokbua
Messages: 24
Registered: May 2012
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Thanks, that'd be very cool. Access to the hardware node is limited by IP
but if you send me (privately if you prefer) the IP address you will use to
access I'll add that to allowed hosts and reply with the login coordinates.
Rene
On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 11:34 PM, Kirill Korotaev <dev@parallels.com> wrote:
> I can take a look if you give me access to node.
> If agree - send it privately, w/o users@ on CC.
>
> Kirill
>
>
> On Jul 10, 2012, at 18:40 , Rene C. wrote:
>
> No takers for this one?
>
> If I missed to provide any important information please let me know. The
> issue happens regularly on several hardware nodes so if I missed anything I
> can check it next time it happens.
>
> On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 4:16 PM, Rene C. <openvz@dokbua.com> wrote:
>
>> Today I again had a VE that went up to a relative high load for no
>> apparent reason.
>>
>> Below are the details for the hardware node, followed by the high-load
>> container.
>>
>> I realize it's not the latest kernel, but a reboot takes half an hour
>> (from first VE goes down to last VE is back up, assuming everything goes
>> well and no FSCK is forced) so we only reboot into new kernels when there
>> is a really serious reason for it or the server crashes - but I don't see
>> anything in the kernel updates since our current kernel that would address
>> this issue anyway.
>>
>> Why does the load in this container suddenly go up like that? Websites
>> hosted by the container becomes very sluggish, so it is a real problem.
>>
>> It isn't just a problem with this container - or even this hardware node
>> for that reason, I occasionally see it with containers on other hardware
>> nodes as well. One idea I brought up before was that perhaps it's the file
>> system journal, as suggested in http://wiki.openvz.org/Ploop/Why - but I
>> think that would affect all containers on that file system, not just a
>> single container?
>>
>> --- HARDWARE NODE ---
>>
>> # uname -a
>> Linux server15.hardwarenode.com 2.6.32-042stab049.6 #1 SMP Mon Feb 6
>> 19:17:43 MSK 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>>
>> # rpm -q sl-release
>> sl-release-6.1-2.x86_64
>>
>> # top -cbn1 | head -17
>> top - 21:00:02 up 123 days, 15:31, 1 user, load average: 0.97, 2.70,
>> 2.37
>> Tasks: 886 total, 6 running, 880 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
>> Cpu(s): 8.4%us, 1.7%sy, 0.0%ni, 86.3%id, 3.5%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.1%si,
>> 0.0%st
>> Mem: 16420716k total, 15566264k used, 854452k free, 1477372k buffers
>> Swap: 16777184k total, 623672k used, 16153512k free, 4578176k cached
>>
>> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
>> 94153 27 20 0 164m 41m 3392 S 150.9 0.3 50575:37
>> /usr/libexec/mys
>> 9178 27 20 0 159m 29m 3000 S 72.6 0.2 1284:50
>> /usr/libexec/mysq
>> 567031 apache 20 0 40296 15m 3588 S 17.2 0.1 0:00.09
>> /usr/sbin/httpd
>> 567382 root 20 0 15672 1820 864 R 5.7 0.0 0:00.04 top -cbn1
>> 38 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 1.9 0.0 2:55.25 [events/3]
>> 41 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 1.9 0.0 0:29.00 [events/6]
>> 566362 apache 20 0 43240 19m 4448 R 1.9 0.1 0:01.04
>> /usr/sbin/httpd
>> 566857 apache 20 0 55248 11m 3456 R 1.9 0.1 0:00.05
>> /usr/sbin/httpd
>> 566918 apache 20 0 42596 17m 3704 S 1.9 0.1 0:00.15
>> /usr/sbin/httpd
>> 567033 apache 20 0 39784 14m 3468 S 1.9 0.1 0:00.01
>> /usr/sbin/httpd
>>
>> # vzlist -o ctid,laverage
>> CTID LAVERAGE
>> 1501 0.00/0.05/0.02
>> 1502 0.00/0.00/0.00
>> 1503 0.08/0.03/0.01
>> 1504 0.00/0.00/0.00
>> 1505 8.29/6.04/3.67
>> 1506 27.11/16.97/7.89
>> 1507 0.00/0.00/0.00
>> 1508 0.19/0.06/0.01
>> 1509 0.07/0.03/0.00
>> 1510 0.02/0.02/0.00
>> 1512 0.00/0.00/0.00
>> 1514 0.00/0.00/0.00
>>
>> # iostat -xN
>> Linux 2.6.32-042stab049.6 (server15.hardwarenode.com) 07/03/12
>> _x86_64_ (8 CPU)
>>
>> avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle
>> 8.41 0.04 1.75 3.51 0.00 86.28
>>
>> Device: rrqm/s wrqm/s r/s w/s rsec/s wsec/s
>> avgrq-sz avgqu-sz await svctm %util
>> sdd 0.76 56.58 0.59 0.59 20.27 457.28
>> 402.66 0.25 211.66 4.03 0.48
>> sdc 1.72 27.94 17.20 16.16 887.30 336.18
>> 36.68 0.02 12.71 5.23 17.45
>> sdb 1.65 27.79 19.48 12.95 975.43 318.64
>> 39.91 0.09 15.22 3.77 12.23
>> sda 0.01 0.16 0.10 0.24 1.95 2.79
>> 13.79 0.00 7.06 4.16 0.14
>> vg01-swap 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
>> 8.00 0.00 3.68 2.22 0.00
>> vg01-root 0.00 0.00 0.11 0.35 1.94 2.78
>> 10.30 0.02 38.30 3.12 0.14
>> vg04-swap 0.00 0.00 1.30 0.22 10.41 1.80
>> 8.00 0.01 9.28 1.44 0.22
>> vg04-vz 0.00 0.00 0.05 56.94 9.86 455.49
>> 8.17 0.01 0.18 0.05 0.27
>> vg03-swap 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
>> 8.00 0.00 6.72 1.10 0.00
>> vg03-vz 0.00 0.00 18.98 42.41 887.30 336.18
>> 19.93 0.39 6.33 2.84 17.45
>> vg02-swap 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
>> 8.00 0.00 7.03 0.89 0.00
>> vg02-vz 0.00 0.00 21.19 39.91 975.43 318.64
>> 21.18 0.15 8.99 2.00 12.23
>> vg01-vz 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
>> 7.98 0.00 17.73 17.73 0.00
>>
>> --- CONTAINER ---
>>
>> # top -cbn1 | head -100
>> top - 21:00:04 up 123 days, 15:25, 0 users, load average: 27.11, 16.97,
>> 7.89
>> Tasks: 86 total, 2 running, 84 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
>> Cpu(s): 1.4%us, 0.2%sy, 0.0%ni, 98.1%id, 0.1%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si,
>> 0.2%st
>> Mem: 655360k total, 316328k used, 339032k free, 0k buffers
>> Swap: 1310720k total, 68380k used, 1242340k free, 58268k cached
>>
>> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
>> 916 mysql 20 0 159m 29m 3000 S 79.3 4.6 1284:51
>> /usr/libexec/mysqld
>> 1 root 20 0 2156 92 64 S 0.0 0.0 0:36.50 init [3]
>> 2 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00
>> [kthreadd/1506]
>> 3 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00
>> [khelper/1506]
>> 97 root 16 -4 2244 8 4 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 /sbin/udevd
>> -d
>> 634 root 20 0 1812 212 136 S 0.0 0.0 2:39.88 syslogd -m 0
>> 667 root 20 0 7180 268 168 S 0.0 0.0 1:01.55
>> /usr/sbin/sshd
>> 676 root 20 0 2832 392 304 S 0.0 0.1 0:15.13 xinetd
>> -stayalive -
>> 690 root 20 0 6040 124 72 S 0.0 0.0 0:02.45
>> /usr/lib/courier-im
>> 693 root 20 0 4872 252 200 S 0.0 0.0 0:01.94
>> /usr/sbin/courierlo
>> 701 root 20 0 6040 124 72 S 0.0 0.0 0:06.34
>> /usr/lib/courier-im
>> 703 root 20 0 4872 256 200 S 0.0 0.0 0:03.09
>> /usr/sbin/courierlo
>> 709 root 20 0 6040 128 72 S 0.0 0.0 0:18.15
>> /usr/lib/courier-im
>> 711 root 20 0 4872 256 200 S 0.0 0.0 0:09.15
>> /usr/sbin/courierlo
>> 718 root 20 0 6040 124 72 S 0.0 0.0 0:05.68
>> /usr/lib/courier-im
>> 720 root 20 0 4872 252 200 S 0.0 0.0 0:02.54
>> /usr/sbin/courierlo
>> 730 qmails 20 0 1796 224 144 S 0.0 0.0 1:27.21 qmail-send
>> 732 qmaill 20 0 1752 244 192 S 0.0 0.0 0:22.64 splogger
>> qmail
>> 733 root 20 0 1780 140 64 S 0.0 0.0 0:07.85 qmail-lspawn
>> | /usr
>> 734 qmailr 20 0 1776 148 76 S 0.0 0.0 0:14.07 qmail-rspawn
>> 735 qmailq 20 0 1748 104 68 S 0.0 0.0 0:14.01 qmail-clean
>> 781 root 20 0 51880 4364 196 S 0.0 0.7 1:35.02
>> /usr/sbin/httpd
>> 828 named 20 0 44104 5708 1112 S 0.0 0.9 10:10.53
>> /usr/sbin/named -u
>> 866 root 20 0 3708 8 4 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 /bin/sh
>> /usr/bin/my
>> 981 root 20 0 33912 3756 916 S 0.0 0.6 10:55.30
>> /usr/bin/spamd --us
>> 1107 xfs 20 0 3392 72 40 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.09 xfs
>> -droppriv -daem
>> 1115 root 20 0 5672 8 4 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00
>> /usr/sbin/saslauthd
>> 1116 root 20 0 5672 8 4 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00
>> /usr/sbin/saslauthd
>> 1122 root 20 0 22992 1868 1084 S 0.0 0.3 2:09.79
>> /usr/bin/sw-engine
>> 1123 root 20 0 27328 1508 1160 S 0.0 0.2 6:06.30
>> /usr/local/psa/admi
>> 7251 root 20 0 4488 192 136 S 0.0 0.0 0:22.85 crond
>> 9463 apache 20 0 59184 14m 4356 S 0.0 2.3 0:05.10
>> /usr/sbin/httpd
>>
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