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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Sorry to ask but does anyone know what would be causing the processor load it increase – it seems to be related to BFD (the pkill bfd command is still required to prevent the load from going too high).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>I’ve looked through the logs and nothing jumps out at me... the btmp and wtmp files in /var/log are both fairly small but I’m really not sure where to go from here to get it sorted.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>All help is greatly appreciated.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Richard<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> blueonyx-bounces@mail.blueonyx.it [mailto:blueonyx-bounces@mail.blueonyx.it] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Richard Morgan<br><b>Sent:</b> 08 October 2013 09:47<br><b>To:</b> 'BlueOnyx General Mailing List'<br><b>Subject:</b> [BlueOnyx:13817] Climbing load problem - maybe related to BFD<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Morning (here)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>On our server we’re seeing the processor load increase slowly from its usual 0.3 to above 10 over the space of about three hours. I can clear it with “pkill bfd” which is probably not ideal. The processor load drops rapidly and then starts climbing again. There doesn’t appear to be anything in the logs or messages.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Any ideas for tracing and preventing the problem would be most welcome.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Many thanks indeed.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Richard<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>