Too many sleeping processes?
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I'm wondering if this is normal situation? Do I need all of those process?
It is normal for a server with no load. Many of the processes is the kernel threads. Many core - many processes(you have 16 core).
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I'm running Debian Lenny (x86_64) on a cloud VPS (Xen) and
top
command tells me there are 210 processes running and 209 are sleeping:top - 14:49:29 up 15:18, 1 user, load average: 0.09, 0.11, 0.05 Tasks: 210 total, 1 running, 209 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 0.0%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni,100.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Mem: 532288k total, 437316k used, 94972k free, 30584k buffers Swap: 1048568k total, 408k used, 1048160k free, 219772k cached
And here is what
ps aux
command gives me:USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND root 1 0.0 0.1 10380 812 ? Ss Sep30 0:00 init [2] root 2 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [kthreadd] root 3 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [migration/0] root 4 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [ksoftirqd/0] root 5 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [events/0] root 6 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [khelper] root 7 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:05 [xenwatch] root 8 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:13 [xenbus] root 10 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [migration/1] root 11 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [ksoftirqd/1] root 12 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [events/1] root 13 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [migration/2] root 14 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [ksoftirqd/2] root 15 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [events/2] root 16 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [migration/3] root 17 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [ksoftirqd/3] root 18 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [events/3] root 19 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [migration/4] root 20 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [ksoftirqd/4] root 21 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [events/4] root 22 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [migration/5] root 23 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [ksoftirqd/5] root 24 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [events/5] root 25 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [migration/6] root 26 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [ksoftirqd/6] root 27 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [events/6] root 28 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [migration/7] root 29 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [ksoftirqd/7] root 30 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [events/7] root 31 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [migration/8] root 32 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [ksoftirqd/8] root 33 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [events/8] root 34 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [migration/9] root 35 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [ksoftirqd/9] root 36 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [events/9] root 37 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [migration/10] root 38 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [ksoftirqd/10] root 39 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:04 [events/10] root 40 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [migration/11] root 41 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [ksoftirqd/11] root 42 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [events/11] root 43 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [migration/12] root 44 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [ksoftirqd/12] root 45 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [events/12] root 46 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [migration/13] root 47 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [ksoftirqd/13] root 48 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [events/13] root 49 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [migration/14] root 50 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [ksoftirqd/14] root 51 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [events/14] root 52 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [migration/15] root 53 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [ksoftirqd/15] root 54 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [events/15] root 55 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [kintegrityd/0] root 56 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [kintegrityd/1] root 57 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [kintegrityd/2] root 58 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [kintegrityd/3] root 59 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [kintegrityd/4] root 60 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [kintegrityd/5] root 61 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [kintegrityd/6] root 62 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [kintegrityd/7] root 63 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [kintegrityd/8] root 64 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [kintegrityd/9] root 65 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [kintegrityd/10] root 66 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [kintegrityd/11] root 67 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [kintegrityd/12] root 68 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [kintegrityd/13] root 69 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [kintegrityd/14] root 70 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [kintegrityd/15] root 71 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [kblockd/0] root 72 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [kblockd/1] root 73 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [kblockd/2] root 74 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [kblockd/3] root 75 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [kblockd/4] root 76 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [kblockd/5] root 77 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [kblockd/6] root 78 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [kblockd/7] root 79 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [kblockd/8] root 80 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [kblockd/9] root 81 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [kblockd/10] root 82 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [kblockd/11] root 83 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [kblockd/12] root 84 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [kblockd/13] root 85 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [kblockd/14] root 86 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [kblockd/15] root 87 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [cqueue] root 88 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [kseriod] root 89 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S Sep30 0:00 [pdflush] root 90 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S Sep30 0:00 [pdflush] root 91 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [kswapd0] root 92 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [aio/0] root 93 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [aio/1] root 94 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [aio/2] root 95 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [aio/3] root 96 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [aio/4] root 97 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [aio/5] root 98 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [aio/6] root 99 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [aio/7] root 100 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [aio/8] root 101 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [aio/9] root 102 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [aio/10] root 103 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [aio/11] root 104 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [aio/12] root 105 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [aio/13] root 106 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [aio/14] root 107 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [aio/15] root 108 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [kpsmoused] root 167 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [net_accel/0] root 168 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [net_accel/1] root 169 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [net_accel/2] root 170 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [net_accel/3] root 171 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [net_accel/4] root 172 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [net_accel/5] root 173 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [net_accel/6] root 174 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [net_accel/7] root 175 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [net_accel/8] root 176 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [net_accel/9] root 177 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [net_accel/10] root 178 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [net_accel/11] root 179 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [net_accel/12] root 180 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [net_accel/13] root 181 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [net_accel/14] root 182 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [net_accel/15] root 315 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [xfs_mru_cache] root 316 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [xfslogd/0] root 317 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [xfslogd/1] root 318 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [xfslogd/2] root 319 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [xfslogd/3] root 320 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [xfslogd/4] root 321 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [xfslogd/5] root 322 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [xfslogd/6] root 323 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [xfslogd/7] root 324 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [xfslogd/8] root 325 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [xfslogd/9] root 326 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [xfslogd/10] root 327 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [xfslogd/11] root 328 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [xfslogd/12] root 329 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [xfslogd/13] root 330 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [xfslogd/14] root 331 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [xfslogd/15] root 332 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [xfsdatad/0] root 333 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [xfsdatad/1] root 334 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [xfsdatad/2] root 335 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [xfsdatad/3] root 336 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [xfsdatad/4] root 337 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [xfsdatad/5] root 338 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [xfsdatad/6] root 339 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [xfsdatad/7] root 340 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [xfsdatad/8] root 341 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [xfsdatad/9] root 342 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [xfsdatad/10] root 343 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [xfsdatad/11] root 344 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [xfsdatad/12] root 345 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [xfsdatad/13] root 346 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [xfsdatad/14] root 347 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [xfsdatad/15] root 399 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [jfsIO] root 400 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [jfsCommit] root 401 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [jfsCommit] root 402 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [jfsCommit] root 403 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [jfsCommit] root 404 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [jfsCommit] root 405 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [jfsCommit] root 406 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [jfsCommit] root 407 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [jfsCommit] root 408 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [jfsCommit] root 409 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [jfsCommit] root 410 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [jfsCommit] root 411 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [jfsCommit] root 412 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [jfsCommit] root 413 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [jfsCommit] root 414 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [jfsCommit] root 415 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [jfsCommit] root 416 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [jfsSync] root 673 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep30 0:00 [kjournald] root 727 0.0 0.1 16840 960 ? S<s Sep30 0:00 udevd --daemon root 1273 0.0 0.3 122036 2016 ? Sl Sep30 0:00 /usr/sbin/rsyslogd -c3 root 1306 0.0 0.2 48960 1224 ? Ss Sep30 0:00 /usr/sbin/sshd root 1809 0.0 0.2 21276 1076 ? Ss Sep30 0:00 /usr/sbin/cron root 1873 0.0 1.5 41460 8360 ? Ss Sep30 0:02 /usr/sbin/munin-node root 1896 0.0 0.1 3864 608 tty1 Ss+ Sep30 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty1 root 1897 0.0 0.1 3864 604 tty2 Ss+ Sep30 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty2 root 1898 0.0 0.1 3864 604 tty3 Ss+ Sep30 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty3 root 1899 0.0 0.1 3864 608 tty4 Ss+ Sep30 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty4 root 1900 0.0 0.1 3864 608 tty5 Ss+ Sep30 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty5 root 1901 0.0 0.1 3864 604 tty6 Ss+ Sep30 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty6 101 4526 0.0 0.1 42820 1052 ? Ss 12:27 0:00 /usr/sbin/exim4 -bd -q30m root 8865 0.0 0.2 11668 1432 pts/0 S 13:18 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/mysqld_safe mysql 8980 0.0 9.0 175284 48368 pts/0 Sl 13:18 0:05 /usr/sbin/mysqld --basedir=/usr --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --user=mysql --pid-file=/var/run/my root 8981 0.0 0.1 6480 684 pts/0 S 13:18 0:00 logger -t mysqld -p daemon.error root 13730 0.0 0.8 149144 4712 ? Ss 14:05 0:00 /usr/bin/php5-fpm --fpm-config /etc/php5/fpm/php5-fpm.conf www-data 13731 0.2 11.4 172756 61136 ? S 14:05 0:05 /usr/bin/php5-fpm --fpm-config /etc/php5/fpm/php5-fpm.conf www-data 13732 0.2 8.9 158516 47712 ? S 14:05 0:05 /usr/bin/php5-fpm --fpm-config /etc/php5/fpm/php5-fpm.conf www-data 13733 0.1 8.1 156576 43468 ? S 14:05 0:04 /usr/bin/php5-fpm --fpm-config /etc/php5/fpm/php5-fpm.conf root 14601 0.0 0.2 30600 1240 ? Ss 14:15 0:00 nginx: master process /usr/sbin/nginx www-data 14602 0.0 0.3 30976 1836 ? S 14:15 0:00 nginx: worker process www-data 14603 0.0 0.3 30976 1836 ? S 14:15 0:00 nginx: worker process www-data 14604 0.0 0.5 31552 2852 ? S 14:15 0:00 nginx: worker process www-data 14605 0.0 0.4 31240 2580 ? S 14:15 0:00 nginx: worker process www-data 14606 0.0 0.3 30976 1836 ? S 14:15 0:00 nginx: worker process www-data 14607 0.0 0.3 30976 1836 ? S 14:15 0:00 nginx: worker process www-data 14608 0.0 0.4 31244 2536 ? S 14:15 0:00 nginx: worker process www-data 14609 0.0 0.5 31544 2788 ? S 14:15 0:00 nginx: worker process root 17169 0.0 0.2 17456 1160 pts/0 R+ 14:45 0:00 ps aux root 26391 0.0 0.6 66168 3284 ? Ss 10:32 0:00 sshd: root@notty root 26394 0.0 0.3 42376 2120 ? Ss 10:32 0:00 /usr/lib/openssh/sftp-server root 31500 0.0 0.6 66140 3248 ? Ss 11:33 0:00 sshd: root@pts/0 root 31503 0.0 0.3 20248 1924 pts/0 Ss 11:33 0:00 -bash root 31509 0.0 0.6 66168 3264 ? Ss 11:34 0:00 sshd: root@notty root 31512 0.0 0.3 42180 1984 ? Ss 11:34 0:00 /usr/lib/openssh/sftp-server
I'm wondering if this is normal situation? Do I need all of those process?
Thanks for any suggestions!