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High load average in test server

Posted by satish on Oct 01, 2021; 4:03am
URL: http://erman-arslan-s-oracle-forum.124.s1.nabble.com/High-load-average-in-test-server-tp10311.html

Dear erman,

This is status of our test instance.

orauat@node1 u02]$ top
top - 09:25:24 up 832 days, 16:54,  3 users,  load average: 1556.44, 1555.65, 1554.67
Tasks: 8872 total,   1 running, 8870 sleeping,   0 stopped,   1 zombie
%Cpu(s):  5.3 us,  1.0 sy,  0.0 ni, 92.8 id,  0.9 wa,  0.0 hi,  0.0 si,  0.0 st
KiB Mem : 13173105+total,  1558120 free, 29288668 used, 10088426+buff/cache
KiB Swap: 26843545+total, 26841614+free,    19308 used. 71956976 avail Mem

  PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S  %CPU %MEM     TIME+ COMMAND
 3127 orauat    20   0  166920  10924   1500 R  42.3  0.0   0:00.12 top
20074 root      rt   0 1019840 125764  81692 S  23.1  0.1   1293:44 osysmond.bin
19968 griduat   -2   0 1380312  15716  13412 S   7.7  0.0 737:27.47 asm_vktm_+asm1
 7659 orauat    20   0 1390184  48756  24108 S   3.8  0.0 236:21.37 oraagent.bin
17832 root      20   0 1885056  91288  32044 S   3.8  0.1 518:39.10 ohasd.bin
18207 griduat   20   0 1254876  43608  22944 S   3.8  0.0 226:59.27 oraagent.bin
20172 root      20   0 1117504  35796  19148 S   3.8  0.0 477:11.80 orarootagent.bi
    1 root      20   0  196936   9816   3788 S   0.0  0.0 773:14.62 systemd
    2 root      20   0       0      0      0 S   0.0  0.0   4:14.23 kthreadd


[orauat@node1 u02]$ sar -u 2 5
Linux 3.10.0-514.el7.x86_64 (node1.ttd.com)         Friday 01 October 2021  _x86_64_        (8 CPU)

09:25:47  IST     CPU     %user     %nice   %system   %iowait    %steal     %idle
09:25:49  IST     all      1.07      0.00      3.22      0.13      0.00     95.59
09:25:51  IST     all      5.17      0.00      9.14      0.06      0.00     85.62
09:25:53  IST     all      2.84      0.00      5.24      0.06      0.00     91.85
09:25:55  IST     all      1.45      0.00      2.14      0.13      0.00     96.28
09:25:57  IST     all      3.98      0.00      0.63      0.06      0.00     95.33
Average:        all      2.90      0.00      4.08      0.09      0.00     92.93
[orauat@node1 u02]$


[orauat@node1 u02]$ ps -eo ppid,pid,user,stat,pcpu,comm,wchan:32 | grep " D" |wc -l
1556
[orauat@node1 u02]$

Many such below processes

32153 32158 root     D     0.0 lsof            rpc_wait_bit_killable
32173 32177 root     D     0.0 lsof            rpc_wait_bit_killable
32201 32205 root     D     0.0 lsof            rpc_wait_bit_killable
32198 32207 root     D     0.0 lsof            rpc_wait_bit_killable
32226 32230 root     D     0.0 lsof            rpc_wait_bit_killable
32231 32235 root     D     0.0 lsof            rpc_wait_bit_killable
32237 32241 root     D     0.0 lsof            rpc_wait_bit_killable
32253 32257 root     D     0.0 lsof            rpc_wait_bit_killable
32321 32325 root     D     0.0 lsof            rpc_wait_bit_killable
32345 32349 root     D     0.0 lsof            rpc_wait_bit_killable
32350 32354 root     D     0.0 lsof            rpc_wait_bit_killable
32366 32370 root     D     0.0 lsof            rpc_wait_bit_killable
32395 32399 root     D     0.0 lsof            rpc_wait_bit_killable
32401 32405 root     D     0.0 lsof            rpc_wait_bit_killable
32463 32467 root     D     0.0 lsof            rpc_wait_bit_killable
32473 32477 root     D     0.0 lsof            rpc_wait_bit_killable
32497 32501 root     D     0.0 lsof            rpc_wait_bit_killable
32533 32537 root     D     0.0 lsof            rpc_wait_bit_killable
32532 32541 root     D     0.0 lsof            rpc_wait_bit_killable
32572 32577 root     D     0.0 lsof            rpc_wait_bit_killable
32591 32595 root     D     0.0 lsof            rpc_wait_bit_killable
32624 32628 root     D     0.0 lsof            rpc_wait_bit_killable
32647 32651 root     D     0.0 lsof            rpc_wait_bit_killable
32663 32667 root     D     0.0 lsof            rpc_wait_bit_killable
32668 32672 root     D     0.0 lsof            rpc_wait_bit_killable
32681 32685 root     D     0.0 lsof            rpc_wait_bit_killable
32715 32719 root     D     0.0 lsof            rpc_wait_bit_killable
32725 32729 root     D     0.0 lsof            rpc_wait_bit_killable
32737 32741 root     D     0.0 lsof            rpc_wait_bit_killable
[orauat@node1 u02]$


Our concern is does these processes with D state take cpu?
And how does it impact system?

Thank you