Strange happening
Adam Moffett
adamlists at plexicomm.net
Wed Jul 17 17:05:55 UTC 2013
I just had a moment that made me feel like the stupidest man on the planet.
I restarted ISC dhcpd and it didn't seem to be working. The log
indicated that it had started, and tcpdump indicated that we were
receiving requests. I started it in debug mode and the console sat
there doing nothing.
I looked at top and observed the CPU was about 89% waiting and 0% idle.
After some time passed (I wasn't counting) suddenly the console session
with dhcpd running in debug mode started scrolling along like mad. I
checked top again and now we're 0% waiting.
I assume the system was I/O bound so I guess this is not strictly
related to dhcpd, so flag me off topic and flame me if you want, but if
it happens again I'm wondering if there's a way to determine what
processes are waiting for I/O and/or what they're waiting for specifically.
This system doesn't really do much besides DHCP so I'm a little stunned
that this happened.
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