From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 18 07:05:53 2005 Return-Path: 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 B520B16A4CE for ; Tue, 18 Jan 2005 07:05:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mout.perfora.net (mout.perfora.net [217.160.230.41]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41B4343D45 for ; Tue, 18 Jan 2005 07:05:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dark@sun.com) Received: from bgm-66-24-105-49.stny.rr.com[66.24.105.49] (helo=mxus.perfora.net) by mrelay.perfora.net with ESMTP (Nemesis), id 0MKz5u-1CqnR20tcN-0001Tj; Tue, 18 Jan 2005 02:05:52 -0500 Received: by mxus.perfora.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 617185F1C; Tue, 18 Jan 2005 02:05:51 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 02:05:51 -0500 From: Dev Tugnait To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20050118070551.GA6744@apple.snail.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline X-Editor: Vim http://www.vim.org/ X-Info: http://unixdaemon.org X-Operating-System: Unix/5.3-RELEASE (i386) X-Uptime: 1:57AM up 19 days, 7:21, 21 users, load averages: 0.87, 0.45, 0.48 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Provags-ID: perfora.net abuse@perfora.net login:6cab55b0e871d867d86bc0851d5d347f Subject: [IDLE] Issues X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 07:05:53 -0000 For some reason today my load average seemed to spike repeatedly at intervals going over 5.38 making my mouse laggy and machine terribly slow. Its a desktop machine. ps -aux output UsER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND root 11 90.5 0.0 0 12 ?? RL 29Dec04 20354:56.82 [idle] systat output /0 /10 /20 /30 /40 /50 /60 /70 /80 /90 /100 root idle XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Moving along to figure out what process is idling i killed X postfix and basically everything running except moused, cron, and inetd and the bare minimum needed to run csh. I didnt seem to find any applications idling or running out of the ordinary. I cant seem to kill the [IDLE] splads, what i am curious about is how would one diagnose such an issue? The problem started out today. My usualy load average is about 0.5. Machine Specs 2.6ghz p4 1gb ram 2gb swap thanks +----------==/\/\==----------+ (__) FreeBSD | | \\\'',) The | Kernel ESCAFLOWNE | \/ \ ^ Power | Web http://unixdaemon.org | .\._/_) To +----------==\/\/==----------+ Serve [ We've switched the bath sponge with a tribble. ]