Machine Dying

[dayjahone]

I'm running Ubuntu Feisty Fawn with ISPConfig 2.2.14 and Remote Access. Recently, it gets really slow, then it just seems to stop working. If I reboot, it's fine again, but it's getting worse. It used to happen once a week, now it's daily. Is there a way to see what's causing it?

Thanks.

[till]

Please check the load on the system with the "top" command. The processes listed at the top of the list are causing the load.

[dayjahone]

It stopped working, so I restarted it, then ran "top." This is what I got; however, it's changing constantly:

5232 mydomain  25   0 10644 7884  644 R 13.6  3.1   1:30.84 clamscan                                                                                                                         
 5228 mydomain  25   0 10644 7856  644 R 13.3  3.1   1:30.81 clamscan                                                                                                                         
 5236 info      25   0 10648 7888  644 R 13.3  3.1   1:30.53 clamscan                                                                                                                         
 5799 info      25   0 10384 7592  644 R 13.3  3.0   1:15.84 clamscan                                                                                                                         
 5277 info      25   0 10648 7876  644 R 12.9  3.1   1:30.43 clamscan                                                                                                                         
 5755 info      25   0 10384 7584  644 R 12.6  3.0   1:16.04 clamscan                                                                                                                         
 5786 mydomain  25   0 10380 7576  644 R 10.9  3.0   1:15.86 clamscan                                                                                                                         
 5769 mydomain  25   0 10384 7592  644 R  9.9  3.0   1:15.94 clamscan                                                                                                                         
 6254 root      15   0  2448 1204  880 R  0.7  0.5   0:00.74 top                                                                                                                              
    1 root      18   0  2912 1844  524 S  0.0  0.7   0:01.82 init                                                                                                                             
    2 root      RT   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 migration/0                                                                                                                      
    3 root      34  19     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0                                                                                                                      
    4 root      RT   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 watchdog/0                                                                                                                       
    5 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 events/0                                                                                                                         
    6 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 khelper                                                                                                                          
    7 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kthread                                                                                                                          
   30 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kblockd/0                                                                                                                        
   31 root      20  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kacpid                                                                                                                           
   32 root      20  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kacpi_notify                                                                                                                     
  107 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.01 kseriod                                                                                                                          
  126 root      15   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 pdflush                                                                                                                          
  127 root      15   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 pdflush                                                                                                                          
  128 root      14  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.20 kswapd0                                                                                                                          
  129 root      11  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 aio/0                                                                                                                            
 1947 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 ksuspend_usbd                                                                                                                    
 1948 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 khubd                                                                                                                            
 1983 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 ata/0                                                                                                                            
 1984 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 ata_aux                                                                                                                          
 1987 root      16  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 scsi_eh_0                                                                                                                        
 1988 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 scsi_eh_1                                                                                                                        
 2258 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.02 kjournald                                                                                                                        
 2456 root      16  -4  2860 1188  356 S  0.0  0.5   0:00.60 udevd                                                                                                                            
 3325 root      17  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kgameportd                                                                                                                       
 3330 root      18  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kpsmoused                                                                                                                        
 3724 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.05 kjournald                                                                                                                        
 3964 root      18   0  1652  512  440 S  0.0  0.2   0:00.00 getty                                                                                                                            
 3965 root      18   0  1652  512  440 S  0.0  0.2   0:00.00 getty                                                                                                                            
 3967 root      18   0  1648  508  440 S  0.0  0.2   0:00.00 getty                                                                                                                            
 3970 root      18   0  1648  508  440 S  0.0  0.2   0:00.01 getty                                                                                                                            
 3973 root      18   0  1652  512  440 S  0.0  0.2   0:00.00 getty                                                                                                                            
 3974 root      18   0  1648  508  440 S  0.0  0.2   0:00.00 getty                                                                                                                            
 4216 root      17   0  2256 1172  656 S  0.0  0.5   0:00.01 acpid                                                                                                                            
 4329 root      15   0  1700  604  496 S  0.0  0.2   0:00.52 syslogd                                                                                                                          
 4385 root      15   0  1788  520  432 S  0.0  0.2   0:00.04 dd                                                                                                                               
 4387 klog      18   0  2424 1372  400 S  0.0  0.5   0:00.12 klogd                                                                                                                            
 4408 messageb  18   0  2720  948  716 S  0.0  0.4   0:00.02 dbus-daemon                                                                                                                      
 4424 haldaemo  18   0 10288 8588 1708 S  0.0  3.4   0:03.62 hald

[till]

You should switch to clamdscan instead of clamscan:

http://www.howtoforge.com/forums/showthread.php?t=16204

[dayjahone]

Actually, I think this is what you were looking for:

top - 08:47:05 up 22 min,  1 user,  load average: 13.21, 11.63, 7.92
Tasks: 169 total,  16 running, 149 sleeping,   0 stopped,   4 zombie
Cpu(s): 99.7%us,  0.3%sy,  0.0%ni,  0.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Mem:    255896k total,   192100k used,    63796k free,     3528k buffers
Swap:   746980k total,    73892k used,   673088k free,    32024k cache

[falko]

Please try what Till suggested in the previous post.

[dayjahone]

I tried to follow those steps, but am unsure about the commands. Sorry for the stupid question, but, but how do I enter them:

./configure --prefix=/home/admispconfig/ispconfig/tools/clamav \

Is this all one line?...followed by

./configure --sysconfdir=/home/admispconfig/ispconfig/tools/clamav/etc \

[jnsc]

The \ at the end of the line means that the command line is composed from more than one line. So either you write everything on one line without \ or you leave the \ and use 2 lines. But you will only need ./configure once at the beginning of the line.