From owner-freebsd-sparc Sun Dec 22 6:40: 0 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C89A37B401 for ; Sun, 22 Dec 2002 06:39:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from pump3.york.ac.uk (pump3.york.ac.uk [144.32.128.131]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1969143EDE for ; Sun, 22 Dec 2002 06:39:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk) Received: from ury.york.ac.uk (ury.york.ac.uk [144.32.108.81]) by pump3.york.ac.uk (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id gBMEdpv13483 for ; Sun, 22 Dec 2002 14:39:51 GMT Received: from ury.york.ac.uk (localhost.york.ac.uk [127.0.0.1]) by ury.york.ac.uk (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gBMEdpTI070361 for ; Sun, 22 Dec 2002 14:39:51 GMT (envelope-from gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk) Received: from localhost (gavin@localhost) by ury.york.ac.uk (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) with ESMTP id gBMEdpgw070358 for ; Sun, 22 Dec 2002 14:39:51 GMT X-Authentication-Warning: ury.york.ac.uk: gavin owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 14:39:51 +0000 (GMT) From: Gavin Atkinson X-X-Sender: gavin@ury.york.ac.uk To: sparc@freebsd.org Subject: High 'system' load Message-ID: <20021222142731.U61142-100000@ury.york.ac.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I have an Ultra 5, with a 270MHz processor. Does this look right (during a buildworld)? last pid: 14178; load averages: 1.96, 1.82, 1.82 up 0+01:37:27 14:28:22 35 processes: 2 running, 33 sleeping CPU states: 22.0% user, 0.0% nice, 55.1% system, 0.9% interrupt, 22.0% idle Mem: 10M Active, 20M Wired, 1856K Cache, 9120K Buf, 1728K Free Swap: 146M Total, 16M Used, 130M Free, 11% Inuse, 280K In PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND 419 root 108 0 6848K 720K RUN 29:28 27.34% 27.34% top 14177 root 113 0 7824K 5952K RUN 0:01 49.20% 4.69% cc1 14178 root -8 0 1424K 768K piperd 0:00 1.03% 0.10% as Note the massively high 'system' load, and the fact top uses around 25-30% of the CPU power. I am running a GENERIC kerenl built 12th Dec, but have always seen high 'system' percentages. Gavin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message