Fedora 14 2.6.35.14-106.fc14.x86_64 High Load

[Josh Boyer]

On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 6:05 AM, Tom Clark <tom at elysium.ltd.uk> wrote:
> Hi,
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> I've noticed that our server has a high CPU load. Our server is a mail
> server setup with Fedora 14 it has a dual-core AMD Opteron, 8GB of RAM and
> twin 1TB SATA drives in software Raid 1.
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> We originally had a CPU load greater than 20, which we believed to be caused
> by this bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=650934
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> We upgraded the kernel to the latest version
> (kernel-2.6.35.14-106.fc14.x86_64) using 'yum'.

2.6.35 is a very old kernel these days, and Fedora 14 is End of Life.

> Any ideas what is causing this and how to fix the issue?

You might try upgrading to a newer kernel.  Aside from that, you would
need to talk to the upstream 2.6.35.x longterm maintainer, but he
doesn't seem to have done anything with 2.6.35 in a very long time.

josh