From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 10 13:15:51 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D9C816A456; Wed, 10 May 2006 13:15:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vd@datamax.bg) Received: from jengal.datamax.bg (jengal.datamax.bg [82.103.104.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA67D43D58; Wed, 10 May 2006 13:15:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from vd@datamax.bg) Received: from qlovarnika.bg.datamax (qlovarnika.bg.datamax [192.168.10.2]) by jengal.datamax.bg (Postfix) with SMTP id CDF88B859; Wed, 10 May 2006 16:15:49 +0300 (EEST) Received: (nullmailer pid 15891 invoked by uid 1002); Wed, 10 May 2006 13:15:49 -0000 Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 16:15:49 +0300 From: Vasil Dimov To: Iasen Kostov Message-ID: <20060510131549.GA15862@qlovarnika.bg.datamax> References: <1147264089.51661.10.camel@DraGoN.OTEL.net> <1147264379.51661.14.camel@DraGoN.OTEL.net> <1147265038.51661.19.camel@DraGoN.OTEL.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="r5Pyd7+fXNt84Ff3" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1147265038.51661.19.camel@DraGoN.OTEL.net> X-OS: FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Cc: FreeBSD Hackers Subject: Re: Heavy system load by pagedaemon X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: vd@FreeBSD.org List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 13:15:52 -0000 --r5Pyd7+fXNt84Ff3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 03:43:58PM +0300, Iasen Kostov wrote: > On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 15:32 +0300, Iasen Kostov wrote: > > On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 15:28 +0300, Iasen Kostov wrote: > > > Hello > > > I (probably) have some problem with a hosting server machine halting > > > about once a 30 to minute (probably when the free memory falls under > > > some threshold). At that moment the machine totally halts for about 5= sec > > > then resumes normal work with load average around 9-15 (depends on > > > system load) from about 2-3. The system is: > > > (nice try :() > > FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE #7: Wed Mar 15 17:35:21 EET 2006 > >=20 > > ACPI APIC Table: > > Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 > > CPU: Dual Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 270 (2004.56-MHz K8-class CPU) > > Origin =3D "AuthenticAMD" Id =3D 0x20f12 Stepping =3D 2 > >=20 > > Features=3D0x178bfbff > > Features2=3D0x1 > > AMD Features=3D0xe2500800,LM,3DNow+,3DNow> > > real memory =3D 8724152320 (8320 MB) > > avail memory =3D 8315379712 (7930 MB) > > FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 4 CPUs > >=20 > Hum, I was probably wrong about the free memory threshold - it > currently has ~1600MB of free and it is doing it again. When the free > memory falls under ~30MB it is just doing it more frequently. >=20 If you are absolutely sure there is a problem with the OS the first thing you should (probably) do is to upgrade to 6.1-STABLE Good luck! --=20 Vasil Dimov gro.DSBeerF@dv Testing can show the presence of bugs, but not their absence. -- Edsger W. Dijkstra --r5Pyd7+fXNt84Ff3 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iD8DBQFEYeeFFw6SP/bBpCARAqS9AJ9fp0S00An2v10cENDfJIjHLocPvwCgh+Xf JYjp6Jhp0D7x0souHsvDxas= =28Ts -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --r5Pyd7+fXNt84Ff3--