From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932405AbWGLEOQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Jul 2006 00:14:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932411AbWGLEOQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Jul 2006 00:14:16 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:64656 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932405AbWGLEOP (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Jul 2006 00:14:15 -0400 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Ask List Subject: Re: Runnable threads on run queue Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 04:14:05 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <1152429626.9711.34.camel@Homer.TheSimpsons.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 66.237.13.5 (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060508 Firefox/1.5.0.4) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Mike Galbraith gmx.de> writes: ... > Looking at the interrupts column, I suspect you have a network problem, > not a scheduler problem. Looks to me like your SpamAssasins are simply > running out of work to do because your network traffic comes in bursts. > > -Mike > > Network Problem? So your saying our mail servers are not sending spam traffic fast enough if spam assassin processes are running out of work to do? So when our mail servers are not sending spam traffic we see our cpu,cs,interrupts, & runnable threads drop ...? I'd really like to believe this is true, however in the sa logs there are still plenty of B (busy threads)...