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Date:      Sun, 22 Dec 2002 08:42:28 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Gavin Atkinson <gavin@ury.york.ac.uk>
Cc:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, sparc@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: High 'system' load
Message-ID:  <20021222164228.GA20101@rot13.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20021222163055.S61142-100000@ury.york.ac.uk>
References:  <20021222142731.U61142-100000@ury.york.ac.uk> <20021222162635.GA19974@rot13.obsecurity.org> <20021222163055.S61142-100000@ury.york.ac.uk>

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On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 04:35:11PM +0000, Gavin Atkinson wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Dec 2002, Kris Kennaway wrote:
>=20
> > 1.96 is not "massively high", it indicates that two processes are
> > waiting to run (as expected in this situation).
>=20
> You actually snipped the line I was querying. I was not talking about the
> load averages, but the actual percentage of load which is credited to
> 'system':

Sorry, it wasn't clear to me to which you were referring.

> CPU states: 22.0% user,  0.0% nice, 55.1% system,  0.9% interrupt, 22.0% =
idle
>=20
> This does seem excessively high to me.

Again, it's only one sampling period (probably 1 second), but if you
have debugging options like WITNESS enabled you will see higher system
CPU usage.

Kris

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