Hi all: I have encountered a strange situation which my host went out of countrol out of peak time. top -S shows that CPU Sys. is over 90 %, and pagedaemon has very high loading, then the server died. Would anyone give me some advices to solve this queer problem? Thanks and have a nice day, Weicheng Pan. ==top -S: last pid: 38024; load averages: 11.03, 39.34, 25.33 up 1+10:55:52 03:49:51 299 processes: 8 running, 250 sleeping, 41 waiting CPU states: % user, % nice, % system, % interrupt, % idle Mem: 475M Active, 1258M Inact, 220M Wired, 50M Cache, 112M Buf, 3976K Free Swap: 1024M Total, 1024M Free PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE C TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND 55 root -16 0 0K 8K RUN 0 6:05 104.64% 104.64% pagedaem on 44 root -28 -147 0K 8K WAIT 1 4:18 14.94% 14.94% swi5: cloc k sio 38019 root 121 0 5852K 3356K RUN 1 0:06 11.34% 10.50% httpd 38023 wcpan 122 0 2676K 1820K CPU1 1 0:03 17.75% 9.38% top 516 root 115 0 3480K 8K select 0 0:11 162.00% 7.91% sendmail 15131 www 4 10 149M 8K accept 0 2:58 24.75% 4.49% httpd 3 root -8 0 0K 8K - 1 0:35 4.35% 4.35% g_up 37946 wcpan 109 0 6212K 8K select 0 0:07 5.51% 2.49% sshd systat -vm 1 users Load 35.17 54.01 27.95 Aug 14 03:48 Mem:KB REAL VIRTUAL VN PAGER SWAP PAGER Tot Share Tot Share Free in out in out Act 1766616 7460 2712348 14144 57140 count All 2047068 11416 7289432 19748 pages Interrupts Proc:r p d s w Csw Trp Sys Int Sof Flt 87 cow 236 total 3 2226 103 208 285 287 28 200 227316 wire 6: fdc0 484556 act 128 8: rtc 98.1%Sys 1.9%Intr 0.0%User 0.0%Nice 0.0%Idl 1286108 inact 13: npx | | | | | | | | | | 50972 cache 14: ata ================================================ 6176 free 19: ata daefr 4 24: bge Namei Name-cache Dir-cache 81 prcfr 4 25: bge Calls hits % hits % 16 react 100 0: clk 102 102 100 10 pdwake 26 zfod 4323760 pdpgs Disks ad8 ad10 8 ofod intrn KB/t 0.00 0.00 32 %slo-z 114464 buf tps 0 0 143 tfree 35 dirtybuf MB/s 0.00 0.00 100000 desiredvnodes % busy 0 0 90089 numvnodes 48765 freevnodes