From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98) Description of problem: System is used to run mrtg stats and constantly increases the load average. Same machine under slackware linux does not have a problem. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Run the series of Cron jobs to collect mrtg statistics 2. 3. Actual Results: Load average Increases approx 10 point per 30 minutes Expected Results: Load Average under slackware Never goes past 3 running exactly the same cron jobs. Additional info: Can log in any time and see what is going on. via ssh
This sounds more like a mrtg problem, right? Changing to correct component... Read ya, Phil
top shows that the snmpwalk and snmpget command are using most of the cpu and memory thus increasing the load.
*** Bug 67438 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
As far as I can see, mrtg-2.10.5 itself never calls the snmpwalk or snmpget commands, unless you have specified them in the config file as an external monitoring script. Please reopen if you still experience this with a recent release and the load is caused by mrtg.