From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 28 7:56:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from viger.playstos.com (viger.playstos.com [194.79.208.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D48A037B424 for ; Thu, 28 Sep 2000 07:56:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sunshine (gw2.playstos.com [194.79.208.2]) by viger.playstos.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 4CB0CD5EE6 for ; Thu, 28 Sep 2000 16:58:24 +0200 (CEST) From: "Alessandro de Manzano" To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 16:56:47 +0200 Reply-To: "Alessandro de Manzano" X-Mailer: PMMail 2000 Professional (2.10.2010) For Windows 2000 (5.0.2195) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: strange load Message-Id: <20000928145824.4CB0CD5EE6@viger.playstos.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello! (sorry for bad english!) I'm a sys/netadmin of few FreeBSD machines and also if I can't call myself a "unix guru" I'm not a newbie :-) However, I'm seeing a strange load on one of mine FreeBSD 4.0-stable servers and I can't explain it. these are the first lines of "top" output : last pid: 64984; load averages: 1.00, 1.00, 1.00 up 100+04:47:18 16:42:54 27 processes: 1 running, 26 sleeping CPU states: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.0% system, 0.0% interrupt, 100% idle Mem: 7784K Active, 82M Inact, 19M Wired, 3824K Cache, 22M Buf, 12M Free Swap: 256M Total, 256M Free I don't understand why the load averages are all 1.00 when the CPU is 100% idle! The loads are 1.00 from few minutes and the same for CPU utilization %. Is this a correct behavior or what ? My machine is really idle looking at "top" and "ps ax" outputs, so why loads are 1.00 ? I checked also network traffic and others profiling systems ( like "netstat -i", "netstat -a" and "systat -vmstat") but all seems calm. I hope this is not a silly question! :-) Thanks in advance ! Alessandro de Manzano Playstos - TIMA S.p.A. Corso Sempione 63 20149 Milano, Italy tel.: +39-023314153 fax: +39-02315678 email: demanzano@playstos.com http://www.playstos.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message