From owner-freebsd-sparc Sun Dec 22 8:42:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59DD937B401 for ; Sun, 22 Dec 2002 08:42:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-64-169-104-228.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [64.169.104.228]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A499643ED8 for ; Sun, 22 Dec 2002 08:42:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from rot13.obsecurity.org (rot13.obsecurity.org [10.0.0.5]) by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEE0566BE3; Sun, 22 Dec 2002 08:42:28 -0800 (PST) Received: by rot13.obsecurity.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 9EA9E1341; Sun, 22 Dec 2002 08:42:28 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 08:42:28 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Gavin Atkinson Cc: Kris Kennaway , sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: High 'system' load Message-ID: <20021222164228.GA20101@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <20021222142731.U61142-100000@ury.york.ac.uk> <20021222162635.GA19974@rot13.obsecurity.org> <20021222163055.S61142-100000@ury.york.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="X1bOJ3K7DJ5YkBrT" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021222163055.S61142-100000@ury.york.ac.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --X1bOJ3K7DJ5YkBrT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 --X1bOJ3K7DJ5YkBrT Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+BetwWry0BWjoQKURAnLTAJ9MGBK3hi6Na/MAp/4lTBP9dLV/ugCgl2oo EYegWpu1tag5nxoVCiJx02k= =AA5n -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --X1bOJ3K7DJ5YkBrT-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message