From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 6 03:25:37 2006 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 C2F3616A4DA for ; Wed, 6 Sep 2006 03:25:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pauls@utdallas.edu) Received: from mail.stovebolt.com (mail.stovebolt.com [66.221.101.248]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7554443D45 for ; Wed, 6 Sep 2006 03:25:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pauls@utdallas.edu) Received: from [192.168.2.102] (adsl-66-137-149-230.dsl.rcsntx.swbell.net [66.137.149.230]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.stovebolt.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21B97114330; Tue, 5 Sep 2006 22:20:05 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 22:25:24 -0500 From: pauls@utdallas.edu To: Jonathan Horne , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <82F03D65B6CF592720AD9BEF@paul-schmehls-powerbook59.local> In-Reply-To: <200609052209.02506.freebsd@dfwlp.com> References: <200609052209.02506.freebsd@dfwlp.com> X-Mailer: Mulberry/4.0.5 (Mac OS X) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=sha1; protocol="application/pkcs7-signature"; boundary="==========4F1FE816BDF74AE94CBB==========" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: Re: questions about periodic 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, 06 Sep 2006 03:25:37 -0000 --==========4F1FE816BDF74AE94CBB========== Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline --On September 5, 2006 10:09:02 PM -0500 Jonathan Horne=20 wrote: > i have a couple virtual machines running freebsd 6.1-;4 on a ms vs2005 > host, and as of the moment of this writing (and for a while now > actually), they are idling at near 0% utilization. but during the > nights, they really get going to the point that they ramp the cpu fan > speeds to max on the my host box! it takes them hours and hours to > quiet back down, sometimes not until i power the virtual machines off > and back on again. > > im wondering if the cause of these early hours cpu hogging could be > coming from items running from periodic? i think the daily folder is > probably the culprit. is there a good way to see which all scripts are > being run, what their scheduling and priority is? i would like to cull > out as many as i could live without (if possible). > If you're going to do that, do it in the right way. Disable the scripts=20 in /etc/periodic.conf. Read the man pages. Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu) Adjunct Information Security Officer The University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/ --==========4F1FE816BDF74AE94CBB==========--