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High CPU utilization but low load average
On Linux at least, the load average and CPU utilization are actually two different things. Load average is a measurement of how many tasks are waiting in a kernel run queue (not just CPU time but also ...
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High CPU utilization but low load average
Load is a very deceptive number. Take it with a grain of salt.
If you spawn many tasks in very quick succession which complete very quickly, the number of processes in the run queue is too small to ...
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Environment variables of a running process on Unix?
While rather sparsely documented, the contents of /proc/<pid>/environ will only contain the environment that was used to start the process.
If you need to inspect the current state of a process'...
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Can tone ethernet cable into patch panel but it's not working
You can use a Fluke to test the pairs. That will tell you if the cable is bad; all the tone does is confirm that the two ends have electrical connectivity.
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Fortinet: Is there any equivalent of the ASA's packet-tracer command?
On the Fortigate you actually don't have command with capability to generate a dummy packet like on your cisco ASA. But the closest utility will be "diagnose debug flow" commands. The difference is ...
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Environment variables of a running process on Unix?
Taken from the Archlinux wiki:
You can create a temporary function to parse the values in /proc/<pid>/environ. At the terminal prompt:
envof() { sed 's/\x0/\n/g' /proc/${1}/environ; }
Then ...
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Program does not run properly as Scheduled Task
I believe your problem has to do with either the permissions of the account being used to run the task, or the context of the account as exists when trying to run the task.
Test for Console Session ...
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Windows Search Indexer Uses High CPU Usage
The CPU usage you showed in the screenshots is not very high. So let's start by investigating what do you mean by "slowness". It's very likely that your disks are saturated, causing everything to feel ...
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80% memory utilization on server- is this just caching?
You have a kernel memory leak. The nonpaged pool is 2.5GB. You can use poolmon to see which driver is causing the high usage.
Install the Windows WDK, run poolmon, sort it via P after pool type so ...
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Unable to logoff, disconnect, or reset terminal server user in production environment
The simple answer is to run an elevated command prompt and type "Taskmgr" and then it will allow you to logoff the sessions under the USERS tab. It will not work without being in the elevated session....
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High CPU utilization but low load average
If the load average doesn't increase much then it just means that your hardware specs and the nature of the tasks to be processed result in a good overall throughput, avoiding them to be piled up in ...
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Can tone ethernet cable into patch panel but it's not working
Since your talking about SOHO routers etc. I'm assuming that a tester from Fluke is way over budget to test one cable? And I've been in the same position where I've had to troubleshoot a cable without ...
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Non-invasive way for our network team to run ping/tracert/etc from various servers
It really depends on how much you trust them.
Option 1 - Keep doing it yourself
If you don't trust them at all, don't give them any access...though really, they control your firewall, so you must ...
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Environment variables of a running process on Unix?
If you want to create formatted env like output of the environment variables for an arbitrary process (PID), you can create a convenient bash penv <pid> command (tailored to your OS) and add it ...
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HTTPS slow/times out while HTTP is working normally
Glad you got a working solution to this. Based on what you have described, this sounds like a Path MTU Discovery Black Hole issue.
Essentially, you may well have a router on your route to the ...
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What to do with trailing slash in $HOME on CentOS?
The value of $HOME originates from the /etc/passwd file. You can use usermod --home /home/user user as root to change the home directory of user to be /home/user. The advantage of using usermod rather ...
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Best way to troubleshoot apache not starting?
I had similar problem with debug apache server on Mac OS, so decided to share my experience and save others some time
I found the following very helpful:
locate logs:
apachectl -S | grep log
in the ...
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Tracking down load average
Coming back to this 6 years later, I realized that no answer here is all that useful. Here's by far and away the simplest way to see what's contributing to your load average on Linux:
# View ...
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Unable to logoff, disconnect, or reset terminal server user in production environment
I had the same issue in Windows Server 2016. The user was not able to login.
So I tried the following steps to disconnect the orphaned session:
on the CLI qwinsta lists all available sessions, ...
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How to perform an assessment of an existing network?
You need to know a lot more than you do, to be honest. Even if you had the output from all the tools, and knew where to look for things that can't be automated, what would you do with the information? ...
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Remote port forwarding through EC2 not working, though address is in use
From your local machine:
$ ssh -L5555:localhost:5555 user@remote-machine.example.com
Then you'll have access to port 5555 on the remote machine from your local system. Just point your browser to ...
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Debugging slow network
"having no experience" is a bad starting point for complex issues. Unfortunately, more often than not, performance issues tend to be complex. And there is no single diagnostic toolset which, when run, ...
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ESXi host halts, console seems responsive but
I suspect an I/O issue.
Can you detail the hardware and storage being used? Also provide the ESXi version and build number.
Often times, you'll see this happen if the storage used by ESXi becomes ...
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High CPU utilization but low load average
While Matthew Ife's answer was very helpful and led us in the right direction, it was not exactly the what caused the behavior in our case. In our case we have a multi threaded Java application that ...
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VPS can ping host by IP but not by name
Easy: Because you didn't define an A record for it.
A dig +trace +additional ns1.imagihost.com A shows us your nameservers, the glue records, and the output from a nameserver responsible for ...
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Testing VPN from same network I want to VPN into
You could use a smart phone as a WIFI access point... connect a laptop to it to do all your testing while sitting right at your desk in your office.
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DNS issues after KB3200970 and KB3202790 updates installed
You were able to reproduce the issue on another PC? It seems like a networking issue.
First try to reset IP and Winsock settings and restart the PC
netsh int ip reset c:\resetlog.txt
netsh winsock ...
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Diagnosing system which persistently recognises SATA drives but refusing to recognise SAS drive or its replacement?
I spoke to LSI (now Avago) tech support for storage, in Germany. They considered that if 2 different kinds of "known good" controller in 2 different machines both recognised all sata but not this sas ...
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Troubleshooting ESXi hardware freeze with PCI Passthrough
Realize this question might be dated but still came up as a top google result when I hit this problem. Found a solution here so figured I'd share.
My env:
VMware ESXi 6.5
SuperMicro SYS-E300-8D
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How to investigate unexpected Linux server shut down?
There are a number of logs files in /var/log directory (and it's subdirectories), including
/var/log/boot
and
/var/log/boot.log
Start with the files above.
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