Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 14:52:36 -0500 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: console locked again:: load over 2.00 Message-ID: <20081105145236.dcce93dd.wmoran@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <20081105194506.GA18676@thought.org> References: <20081105194506.GA18676@thought.org>
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In response to Gary Kline <kline@thought.org>: > > Any ideas *why* my load is so high when my desktop wasn't touched for 9, 10 hours? > I was running mostly KDE3 konsoles, and had a few other processes going, the > apps iconisized. The server is still running; I've killed everything I can think of > to reduce the load. It may be that the screen won't come back if the load is > > 1.00. I'm upgrading my kernel to see if *that* has any effect. O/wise, I'm out of > ideas. Doesn't sound right at all. I've seen my load avgs go much higher than 2 on my desktop and not had much difficulty logging in. Generally, slow logins are a symptom of IO starvation, as an inability to get to a disk page is more of a show stopper than contention for CPU resources. How much of your swap is in use? What are the pagein/ pageout statistics during this? Are you sure the disk isn't dying? -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com
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