From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Mar 9 9:57:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mercury.aepnet.com (hyperion.aepnet.com [208.129.247.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61CED37B71B for ; Fri, 9 Mar 2001 09:57:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chris@aepnet.com) Received: from mercury (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mercury.aepnet.com (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id f29HvLC00888; Fri, 9 Mar 2001 10:57:22 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <200103091757.f29HvLC00888@mercury.aepnet.com> Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 10:57:20 -0700 From: chris reaume Reply-To: chris@aepnet.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Re: load stays at 1 on an idle machine Cc: stable@freebsd.org To: Mikhail Teterin X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.343) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v343) Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've noticed I tend to get this behavior when I've got a zombie process = somewhere, so you might check that too. thanks, chris On Friday, March 9, 2001, at 08:39 AM, Mikhail Teterin wrote: > Hello!=20 > =20 > I was running a single instance of SETI@Home, when I observed the load=20= > of 2. I stopped seti and the load went down to one. It stays there for=20= > about 20 hours already. The machine is idle:=20 > =20 > last pid: 1886; load averages: 1.00, 1.00, 1.00 up 0+20:36:36 = 10:33:11=20 > 16 processes: 1 running, 15 sleeping=20 > CPU states: 0.4% user, 0.0% nice, 0.0% system, 0.0% interrupt, = 99.6% idle=20 > Mem: 7136K Active, 20M Inact, 9024K Wired, 56K Cache, 22M Buf, 88M = Free=20 > Swap: 256M Total, 256M Free=20 > =20 > PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU = COMMAND=20 > [....]=20 > =20 > This is a 4.3-beta:=20 > FreeBSD 4.3-BETA #0: Tue Mar 7 22:58:18 EST 2000=20 > on a single Pentium-II 266MHz with 128Mb of RAM. The unusual = (somewhat)=20 > things are: no video card, two Promise-66 IDE controllers, while the = on=20 > board IDE is disabled (they are WDMA2 only). I think, this = happened=20 > before to someone, but I could not find the thread. Any clues? Thanks,=20= > =20 > -mi=20 > =20 > [...]=20 > Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz=20 > Timecounter "TSC" frequency 265910989 Hz=20 > CPU: Pentium II/Pentium II Xeon/Celeron (265.91-MHz 686-class CPU)=20 > Origin =3D "GenuineIntel" Id =3D 0x633 Stepping =3D 3=20 > =20 > = Features=3D0x80f9ff=20 > real memory =3D 134217728 (131072K bytes)=20 > avail memory =3D 127963136 (124964K bytes)=20 > [...]=20 > ccd0: Concatenated disk driver=20 > Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled=20 > npx0: on motherboard=20 > npx0: INT 16 interface=20 > pcib0: on motherboard=20 > pci0: on pcib0=20 > isab0: at device 7.0 on pci0=20 > isa0: on isab0=20 > atapci0: port 0xff80-0xff8f at device 7.1 = on pci0=20 > ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0=20 > atapci1: port = 0xfd80-0xfdbf,0xff98-0xff9b,0xff90-0xff=20 > 97,0xff9c-0xff9f,0xffa0-0xffa7 mem 0xffb60000-0xffb7ffff irq 11 at = device 11.0 on=20 > pci0=20 > ata2: at 0xffa0 on atapci1=20 > ata3: at 0xff90 on atapci1=20 > atapci2: port = 0xfe80-0xfebf,0xffe0-0xffe3,0xffa8-0xff=20 > af,0xffe4-0xffe7,0xfff0-0xfff7 mem 0xffba0000-0xffbbffff irq 3 at = device 15.0 on pci0=20 > ata4: at 0xfff0 on atapci2=20 > ata5: at 0xffa8 on atapci2=20 > sym0: <875> port 0xfc00-0xfcff mem = 0xffbea000-0xffbeafff,0xffbebc00-0xffbebcff irq=20 > 10 at device 17.0 on pci0=20 > sym0: Symbios NVRAM, ID 7, Fast-20, SE, parity checking=20 > sym0: open drain IRQ line driver, using on-chip SRAM=20 > sym0: using LOAD/STORE-based firmware.=20 > xl0: <3Com 3c905-TX Fast Etherlink XL> port 0xff00-0xff3f irq 9 at = device 19.0 on pci0=20 > xl0: Ethernet address: 00:60:08:3e:27:1b=20 > miibus0: on xl0=20 > nsphy0: on miibus0=20 > nsphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto=20 > fdc0: at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on = isa0=20 > fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold=20 > fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0=20 > sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0=20 > sio0: type 16550A, console=20 > sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0=20 > IPv6 packet filtering initialized, default to accept, unlimited = logging=20 > IP packet filtering initialized, divert enabled, rule-based forwarding = enabled,=20 > default to accept, unlimited logging=20 > nsphy0: on miibus0=20 > nsphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto=20 > fdc0: at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on = isa0=20 > fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold=20 > fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0=20 > sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0=20 > sio0: type 16550A, console=20 > sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0=20 > IPv6 packet filtering initialized, default to accept, unlimited = logging=20 > IP packet filtering initialized, divert enabled, rule-based forwarding = enabled,=20 > default to accept, unlimited logging=20 > DUMMYNET initialized (010124)=20 > ad4: 39082MB [79406/16/63] at ata2-master UDMA66=20 > ad6: 28629MB [58168/16/63] at ata3-master = UDMA66=20 > ad10: 28629MB [58168/16/63] at ata5-master = UDMA66=20 > Waiting 5 seconds for SCSI devices to settle=20 > (noperiph:sym0:0:-1:-1): SCSI BUS reset delivered.=20 > Mounting root from ufs:/dev/da0a=20 > da0 at sym0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0=20 > da0: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device =20 > da0: 40.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 15, 16bit), Tagged = Queueing Enabled=20 > da0: 2049MB (4197405 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 261C)=20 > =20 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org=20 > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message=20 > =20 > =20 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message