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Date:      Fri, 9 Mar 2001 10:57:20 -0700
From:      chris reaume <chris@aepnet.com>
To:        Mikhail Teterin <mi@aldan.algebra.com>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: load stays at 1 on an idle machine
Message-ID:  <200103091757.f29HvLC00888@mercury.aepnet.com>

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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<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CM=
OV,MMX>=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: <math processor> on motherboard=20
> npx0: INT 16 interface=20
> pcib0: <Host to PCI bridge> on motherboard=20
> pci0: <PCI bus> on pcib0=20
> isab0: <Intel 82371SB PCI to ISA bridge> at device 7.0 on pci0=20
> isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0=20
> atapci0: <Intel PIIX3 ATA controller> port 0xff80-0xff8f at device 7.1 =
on pci0=20
> ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0=20
> atapci1: <Promise ATA66 controller> 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: <Promise ATA66 controller> 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: <MII bus> on xl0=20
> nsphy0: <DP83840 10/100 media interface> on miibus0=20
> nsphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto=20
> fdc0: <NEC 72065B or clone> 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: <DP83840 10/100 media interface> on miibus0=20
> nsphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto=20
> fdc0: <NEC 72065B or clone> 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 <Maxtor 54098H8> [79406/16/63] at ata2-master UDMA66=20
> ad6: 28629MB <QUANTUM FIREBALLP LM30.0> [58168/16/63] at ata3-master =
UDMA66=20
> ad10: 28629MB <QUANTUM FIREBALLP LM30.0> [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: <SEAGATE ST32155W 0528> 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
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