From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 12 15:19:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17A2637B401 for ; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 15:19:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from tierzero.apana.org.au (sa.apana.org.au [203.14.158.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB35B43E77 for ; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 15:19:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bastill@sa.apana.org.au) Received: from BAPhD (dialup-13.pasa.apana.org.au [203.14.158.142]) by tierzero.apana.org.au (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id gACNJ7p96440; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 09:49:08 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from bastill@sa.apana.org.au) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Brian Astill Reply-To: bastill@sa.apana.org.au To: Greg@D2.net.au Subject: Re: Load averages exceed 1 - but all seems well! Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 16:40:11 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 References: <200211102330.44828.bastill@sa.apana.org.au> <200211111235.04747.Greg@D2.net.au> In-Reply-To: <200211111235.04747.Greg@D2.net.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200211121630.19846.bastill@sa.apana.org.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 11 Nov 2002 12:35 pm, you wrote: > Let me guess - you have an AMD processor on a KX133 / KT133 motherboard. Not a bad guess 1.1G Athlon ABit KT7A mobo using the VIA KT133 chip. > This is normal for FVCool - it sits in an idle loop (basically just getting > the CPU to spin it's wheels, but not do anything) to work around a broken > chipset implementation. It sits in the lowest priority that it can, and > issues a "HLT" command to stop the processor if there is nothing for it to > do. > As a comparison - I'm not doing anything funky and here is my top output > last pid: 47682; load averages: 1.10, 2.41, 2.80 up 0+01:01:22 > 12:31:32 > 65 processes: 3 running, 62 sleeping > CPU states: 4.3% user, 92.2% nice, 2.7% system, 0.8% interrupt, 0.0% > idle Mem: 122M Active, 282M Inact, 61M Wired, 3040K Cache, 60M Buf, 31M > Free Swap: 512M Total, 512M Free > PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND > 399 root 97 20 864K 444K RUN 21:16 88.48% 88.48% fvcool > Hope that sheds some light on it - there is some more info in > /usr/local/share/doc/fvcool that will tell you exactly whats going on. > Incidentally, you can get the same functionality out of hacking a kernel > file, but I cannot find the correct location to make the change they > provide in one of the readme files. Since I'm not a kernel hacker, I would > rather have the fvcool solution :) Thanks. Me too! Glad there is nothing amiss. Odd that fvcool works well in console and X/Windowmaker environments, but fails miserably in KDE. Oh well, all the Kapps I want will run in Windowmaker, anyway - and I like WM's simplicity :-) -- Regards, Brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message