Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 11:44:35 -0500 From: Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu> To: Mikhail Teterin <mi@aldan.algebra.com> Cc: FreeBSD Stable <stable@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: load stays at 1 on an idle machine Message-ID: <20010309114435.B45561@ohm.physics.purdue.edu> In-Reply-To: <200103091539.f29Fdra00972@aldan.algebra.com>; from mi@aldan.algebra.com on Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 10:39:53AM -0500 References: <200103091539.f29Fdra00972@aldan.algebra.com>
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--AXo2lOxbfudqq8ta Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 10:39:53AM -0500, Mikhail Teterin wrote: > I was running a single instance of SETI@Home, when I observed the load > of 2. I stopped seti and the load went down to one. It stays there for > about 20 hours already. The machine is idle: >=20 > last pid: 1886; load averages: 1.00, 1.00, 1.00 up 0+20:36:36 10= :33:11 > 16 processes: 1 running, 15 sleeping > CPU states: 0.4% user, 0.0% nice, 0.0% system, 0.0% interrupt, 99.6% = idle > Mem: 7136K Active, 20M Inact, 9024K Wired, 56K Cache, 22M Buf, 88M Free > Swap: 256M Total, 256M Free >=20 > PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND > [....] top(1) doesn't show all stats relevant to the load average. Check vmstat/systat/iostat/netstat/etc. Besides, the load average is a worthless metric if you ask me. --=20 wca --AXo2lOxbfudqq8ta Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.3 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6qQhyF47idPgWcsURAr7WAJ9aoVCNbI+FToPHG1b40C4EthMo/wCfYyE2 +S8C52aan6ehdVvof4aWR9U= =hDo3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --AXo2lOxbfudqq8ta-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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