From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 14 05:01:22 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D0E516A41F for ; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 05:01:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A96F443D45 for ; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 05:01:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C7091A3C22; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 21:01:20 -0800 (PST) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id BA40651432; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 00:01:19 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 00:01:19 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway To: Bob Lee Message-ID: <20051214050119.GA67011@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <1134501177.13444.56.camel@columbus.webtent.org> <20051213195454.GA59033@xor.obsecurity.org> <1134525613.13444.89.camel@columbus.webtent.org> <20051214035039.GA23514@mach.bobleeit.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="VbJkn9YxBvnuCH5J" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051214035039.GA23514@mach.bobleeit.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Multiple CPUs X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 05:01:22 -0000 --VbJkn9YxBvnuCH5J Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 08:50:39PM -0700, Bob Lee wrote: > Quoting Robert Fitzpatrick : > > Here's my top procs: > >=20 > > last pid: 2079; load averages: 8.31, 8.91, 8.43 up 0 > > +00:35:15 20:57:53 > > 149 processes: 13 running, 136 sleeping >=20 > Robert, > FWIW, I did some research a short time ago on utilization and other > aspects of watching performance and I found that 'load' provided > better insight FOR ME into what the system is doing. I wasn't able to > find much on load, but if I understand it correctly, part of what it > shows is the queue on the processor(s). 8 seems high, even by today's > standards and real high by the standards of yesteryear when the load > function was originally created. You may want to spend some time > researching load and see what you come up with. Load just measures how many processes want to run, not how fast or slow they're running. There is no substitute for actually measuring how much work your system can get done on your particular workload. Kris --VbJkn9YxBvnuCH5J Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDn6cfWry0BWjoQKURAhryAKC68gN99GTeAzBAuKchbYWplOSbGwCfZV7r RhiuFt/UDh7y0p6ZP2xmHao= =TeVz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --VbJkn9YxBvnuCH5J--