From owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 7 20:40:06 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3533106566B for ; Thu, 7 Aug 2008 20:40:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::28]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C71CA8FC08 for ; Thu, 7 Aug 2008 20:40:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (gnats@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m77Ke6wb038087 for ; Thu, 7 Aug 2008 20:40:06 GMT (envelope-from gnats@freefall.freebsd.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.14.2/8.14.1/Submit) id m77Ke6HA038086; Thu, 7 Aug 2008 20:40:06 GMT (envelope-from gnats) Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 20:40:06 GMT Message-Id: <200808072040.m77Ke6HA038086@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org From: Gavin Atkinson Cc: Subject: Re: misc/126230: weird process cpu usage stats and weird load X-BeenThere: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Gavin Atkinson List-Id: Bug reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:40:07 -0000 The following reply was made to PR misc/126230; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Gavin Atkinson To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org Cc: Subject: Re: misc/126230: weird process cpu usage stats and weird load Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 21:35:17 +0100 (BST) Just a thought: what is the output of "sysctl dev.cpu.0" both before, and after running rsync? If for some reason your CPU is ending up in a very low frequency mode, then it's not inconceivable that daemons would appear to take a much greater share of the CPU than usual. Also, I'm assuming the clock maintains time normally?