Load Averages problem - Suddenly it goes over 100+ - Any ideas?

[Dmitry Alyabyev]

At the first glance you have lots of processes which cannot be kept in memory 
so your system swaps them out (480M of swap space is used).

On Saturday 17 May 2003 21:49, PsYxAkIaS (FreeBSD) wrote:
> Hi all again,
>
> I am usually having 0.xx load averages but sometimes SUDDENLY it goes more
> than 100+ load averages and then it goes down again.
>
> While it was having 97+ load averages i did 'top -n -S' but didnt show
> anything that wastes so much resources.
>
> I tried tcpdump if there was an incoming attack but didnt notice anything,
> I also checked ipfm, tcpstat, trafshow but there wasnt any badwidth usage.
>
> I am worried for 3 things:
> 1. some type of attack
> 2. hardware problem
> 3. customer's program that wastes resources
>
> Do you have ANY ideas? OR any utilities that will give me more information?
>
> BEFORE:
> -------
> uptime
> 1:32PM  up 22 days, 14:09, 8 users, load averages: 0.11, 0.15, 0.17
>
> AFTER some minutes:
> -------------------
> top -n -S
> last pid:  8129;  load averages: 97.11, 38.51, 38.03  up 22+14:17:52   
> 13:41:48 858 processes: 2 running, 856 sleeping
>
> Mem: 247M Active, 34M Inact, 174M Wired, 14M Cache, 57M Buf, 952K Free
> Swap: 1024M Total, 480M Used, 544M Free, 46% Inuse
>
>
>   PID USERNAME      PRI NICE  SIZE    RES STATE    TIME   WCPU    CPU
> COMMAND 2 root          -18   0     0K     0K wswbuf 213:28  2.83%  2.83%
> pagedaemo 42668 <username>      2   0  8312K  5460K select  18:39  0.73% 
> 0.73% eggdrop-1 42075 <username>    -22   0 20228K  8908K swread  27:17 
> 0.29%  0.29% eggdrop-1 16785 <username>      2   0 14768K 11544K select  
> 8:15  0.15%  0.15% eggdrop-1 97981 <username>      2   0  8392K  5648K
> select  62:58  0.10%  0.10% eggdrop-1 32965 <username>      2   0  5124K 
> 1028K select   3:32  0.05%  0.05% psybnc 937 <username>      2   0 23796K 
> 4300K poll   216:35  0.00%  0.00% ircd 60963 <username>      2   0  4480K 
> 2432K select 113:17  0.00%  0.00% eggdrop-1 945 <username>      2   0 
> 2064K   224K poll   100:24  0.00%  0.00% wbt 77261 <username>      2   0 
> 4972K   304K poll    72:42  0.00%  0.00% shoutpsyx 48141 <username>      2 
>  0  4736K  2444K select  68:04  0.00%  0.00% eggdrop-1 56567 <username>    
>  2   0  5292K   476K poll    63:58  0.00%  0.00% sc_serv 956 <username>    
>  2   0 14068K  4660K poll    61:50  0.00%  0.00% ircd 17753 <username>     
> 2   0  4500K   344K poll    54:50  0.00%  0.00% shoutpsyx 48327 <username> 
>     2   0  4700K  2332K select  43:20  0.00%  0.00% eggdrop-1 48217
> <username>      2   0  4720K  2004K select  39:56  0.00%  0.00% eggdrop-1
> 41547 <username>      2   0  7508K  3980K select  31:50  0.00%  0.00% named
> 55890 <username>      2   0  4588K  2168K select  25:43  0.00%  0.00%
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Dimitry