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Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 12:13:12 -0800
From: Andrew Sharp <andy.sharp@lsi.com>
To: "Limato, Dave" <Dave.Limato@lsi.com>
Cc: "Keiffer, John" <John.Keiffer@lsi.com>
Subject: Re: What's causing my System Resources to hang?
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Always run 

top -b -n 1

so as to get a full list.  But your system is out of
memory, so the basic idea is to try and see if there is one process
that's swollen in size to some stupid big number, like more than 100MB
of resident memory.


On Wed, 6 Jan 2010 11:22:22 -0700 "Limato, Dave"
<Dave.Limato@lsi.com> wrote:

> More specifically, he tries to disable a vsvr and the command times
> out. He is consistently getting in this state when running the
> automated tests.
> 
> From: Keiffer, John
> Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 10:17 AM
> To: Sharp, Andy
> Cc: Limato, Dave
> Subject: What's causing my System Resources to hang?
> 
> System resources full?...
> 
> top - 15:27:00 up 11 min,  2 users,  load average: 17.11, 15.34, 7.46
> Tasks:  76 total,   6 running,  70 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
> Cpu(s):  1.0%us,  2.0%sy,  0.0%ni,  0.0%id, 26.5%wa, 69.4%hi,
> 1.0%si,  0.0%st Mem:    433548k total,   427080k used,     6468k
> free,      196k buffers Swap:    30232k total,    29580k used,
> 652k free,     5076k cached
> 
>   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
>  1223 root      15   0 19528  352  272 R  4.9  0.1   0:07.93 vsd
>  1070 root      15   0 17444  320  204 S  4.8  0.1   0:09.50 pm
>  1202 root      15   0 17108  320  268 R  2.9  0.1   0:07.21
> tape-driver 1249 root      15   0 19840  336  252 S  2.7  0.1
> 0:05.99 snmpd 1250 root      15   0 16616  216  176 S  2.7  0.0
> 0:06.78 asd 50 root      10  -5     0    0    0 D  2.5  0.0   1:21.00
> kswapd0 2492 root      15   0 16500  400  360 S  2.5  0.1   0:01.90
> elog 1166 root      15   0 18500  360  268 S  2.4  0.1   0:06.70 ea
>  1203 root      15   0 17912  216  172 S  2.2  0.0   0:05.91 ndmp_cfgd
>  1236 root      15   0 17228  268  208 S  2.2  0.1   0:04.88
> auth-agent 1803 root      15   0 23652  268  184 S  2.2  0.1
> 0:04.79 nfxsh 2513 root      15   0  4512  840  688 R  2.1  0.2
> 0:01.16 top 1232 root      15   0 18364  212  116 S  1.9  0.0
> 0:07.18 sanmd 2517 root      18   0  7000  224  168 D  1.9  0.1
> 0:00.21 ncmd 1108 root      15   0  4212  100   68 S  1.7  0.0
> 0:03.28 chassisd 1420 root      15   0 17556  232  180 S  1.7  0.1
> 0:06.42 sscccc 1167 root      15   0 17760  200  120 S  1.6  0.0
> 0:06.54 spm
