Excessive resource usage > uptime...
Posted: 11 Mar 2014, 08:51
I have a new VPS hosted on an openvz node. I'm getting loads of Excessive resource usage / CPU time emails. E.g.
I know how to cancel these messages, but the CPU time is a little over 189 days, on a server that has been running for 2 days.... is csf somehow grabbing data from the kernel that doesn't relate to my container... ?
Here a (partial) ps list showing syslogd with a tiny CPU usage.
I should add I'm getting messages for apache preforks and others with similar characteristics
I prefer to understand what's happening before blindly ignoring messages.
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Time: Mon Mar 10 15:44:59 2014 -0400
Account: syslog
Resource: Process Time
Exceeded: 273300 > 1800 (seconds)
Executable: /sbin/syslogd
Command Line: /sbin/syslogd -u syslog
PID: 410 (Parent PID:410)
Killed: NoHere a (partial) ps list showing syslogd with a tiny CPU usage.
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# ps ax
PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND
1 ? Ss 0:04 init
2 ? S 0:00 [kthreadd/8136]
3 ? S 0:00 [khelper/8136]
69 ? S 0:00 upstart-udev-bridge --daemon
91 ? Ss 0:07 /usr/sbin/sshd -D
96 ? Ss 0:00 /sbin/udevd --daemon
123 ? Ss 0:00 dbus-daemon --system --fork --activation=upstart
227 ? S 0:00 /sbin/udevd --daemon
228 ? S 0:00 /sbin/udevd --daemon
254 ? S 0:00 upstart-socket-bridge --daemon
298 ? Ss 0:03 cron
410 ? Ss 0:08 /sbin/syslogd -u syslog
...
I prefer to understand what's happening before blindly ignoring messages.