From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 5 19:52:39 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50E48106567E for ; Wed, 5 Nov 2008 19:52:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from mail.potentialtech.com (internet.potentialtech.com [66.167.251.6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 244588FC16 for ; Wed, 5 Nov 2008 19:52:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from vanquish.ws.pitbpa0.priv.collaborativefusion.com (pr40.pitbpa0.pub.collaborativefusion.com [206.210.89.202]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.potentialtech.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0AE95EBC43; Wed, 5 Nov 2008 14:52:37 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 14:52:36 -0500 From: Bill Moran To: Gary Kline Message-Id: <20081105145236.dcce93dd.wmoran@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <20081105194506.GA18676@thought.org> References: <20081105194506.GA18676@thought.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.5.0 (GTK+ 2.12.11; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: console locked again:: load over 2.00 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, 05 Nov 2008 19:52:39 -0000 In response to Gary Kline : > > 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