[LA.pm] perl cpu spike

[Robert Spier]

You really haven't given us enough information.

Mandrake heavily uses perl for its system tools, so it could really
have been anything.

If this happens again, you'll want to use tools like lsof, and strace,
to figure out whats going on.

-R

At Tue, 01 Mar 2005 08:06:16 -0800,
David Crean wrote:
> 
> We have a webserver running mandrake linux.  It's a pretty basic
> server that gets respectable, but not mind-bending traffic.  We use
> coldfusion development environment, and mssql server (housed on a
> different machine in the same location).  This computer also runs some
> small time email and handles some dns.  Two nights ago we had an
> issue, and while looking into it we found that perl was running at 99%
> CPU for a good long time.  We don't really have anything that runs on
> perl, or uses perl.  The DNS and webmin use it to some small degree,
> but nothing that could account for this kind of spike.  Anyone
> experienced this before?
> 
> David
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