system will not reboot

[AlaskanWolf]

prob in ref to \"Bind keeps failing\" post, server has 13.x load, i shut all services down, run /sbin/reboot and /sbin/shutdown -r 1 and system sends a message that system is shuttin down, but never does, ideas?

8:52pm up 3:44, 1 user, load average: 13.97, 13.39, 11.39
69 processes: 57 sleeping, 4 running, 5 zombie, 3 stopped
CPU states: 2.7% user, 7.3% system, 0.0% nice, 89.8% idle
Mem: 900620K av, 807724K used, 92896K free, 0K shrd, 90236K buff
Swap: 272360K av, 512K used, 271848K free 609828K cached

PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
30881 aircorn 16 0 3948 3948 3180 R 0.9 0.4 0:00 cppop
30879 dkspubc 12 0 3948 3948 3180 S 0.7 0.4 0:00 cppop
2780 root 14 0 3508 3508 3276 S 0.1 0.3 0:03 cppop
29370 root 9 0 2080 2080 1620 R 0.1 0.2 0:00 sshd
30865 root 10 0 1032 1032 820 R 0.1 0.1 0:00 top
30883 root 19 0 3680 3680 3420 R 0.1 0.4 0:00 cppop
1 root 7 0 516 516 448 S 0.0 0.0 0:07 init
2 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:04 keventd
3 root 19 19 0 0 0 SWN 0.0 0.0 0:00 ksoftirqd_CPU0
4 root 9 0 0 0 0 Z 0.0 0.0 0:00 kswapd <defunct>
5 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 bdflush
6 root 9 0 0 0 0 Z 0.0 0.0 0:00 kupdated <defunct>
9 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 khubd
10 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kjournald
139 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kjournald
140 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kjournald
141 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kjournald
142 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kjournald
143 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:05 kjournald
2548 root 9 0 588 588 488 S 0.0 0.0 0:03 syslogd
2553 root 9 0 1196 1196 456 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 klogd
2683 nobody 9 0 4596 4596 3796 S 0.0 0.5 0:00 proftpd
2698 root 9 0 1204 1204 1068 S 0.0 0.1 0:01 sshd
2719 root 9 0 952 936 752 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 xinetd
2767 root 9 0 1964 1964 1300 S 0.0 0.2 0:00 webmaild
2847 root 8 0 720 720 616 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 crond
8598 root 8 0 600 580 528 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 rhnsd
8627 root 9 0 764 764 644 S 0.0 0.0 0:02 portsentry
8631 root 9 0 764 764 644 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 portsentry
26575 root 9 0 420 420 356 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 mingetty
26576 root 9 0 420 420 356 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 mingetty
26577 root 9 0 420 420 356 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 mingetty
26578 root 9 0 420 420 356 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 mingetty
26585 root 9 0 420 420 356 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 mingetty
26586 root 9 0 420 420 356 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 mingetty
19045 nobody 9 0 16772 16M 14988 D 0.0 1.8 0:00 httpd
20129 4itbsco 19 19 420 420 368 S N 0.0 0.0 0:00 logrunner
20130 4itbsco 18 19 904 904 836 T N 0.0 0.1 0:00 webalizer
20135 4itbsco 19 19 1120 1120 1012 S N 0.0 0.1 0:00 webalizer
23059 4itbsco 9 0 5596 5596 4312 S 0.0 0.6 0:00 proftpd
23486 nobody 9 0 17104 16M 15088 D 0.0 1.8 0:00 httpd
23805 nobody 9 0 15980 15M 15016 D 0.0 1.7 0:00 httpd
23925 nobody 9 0 16980 16M 15044 D 0.0 1.8 0:01 httpd
24088 nobody 9 0 16908 16M 15056 D 0.0 1.8 0:01 httpd
24118 nobody 9 0 17176 16M 15080 D 0.0 1.9 0:00 httpd
25668 nobody 9 0 15300 14M 14868 D 0.0 1.6 0:00 httpd
25674 nobody 9 0 15524 15M 15056 D 0.0 1.7 0:00 httpd
25886 nobody 9 0 15080 14M 14844 D 0.0 1.6 0:00 httpd
26726 nobody 9 0 16752 16M 15052 D 0.0 1.8 0:00 httpd
28270 root 9 0 560 560 488 D 0.0 0.0 0:00 shutdown
28271 root 9 0 0 0 0 Z 0.0 0.0 0:00 shutdown <defunct>
28603 root 9 0 560 560 488 D 0.0 0.0 0:00 shutdown
28604 root 9 0 0 0 0 Z 0.0 0.0 0:00 shutdown <defunct>

 

[mkaufman]

Hrm..if you\'re still having a problem - ask the NOC to reboot it for you

 

[AlaskanWolf]

hahahahaha

not the answer i was looking for

 

[feanor]

It probably will restart in a few hours...
the load is huge, the reboot will happen when every other process happens... could be 10 minutes could be 5 hours considering the system load is well over 10.00

Kill the high processes, debug, and safeguard the system against whatever processes were causing things to be so hugely bogged down.