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Date:      Thu, 29 Jan 2004 15:43:22 -0600
From:      Jonathan Fosburgh <syjef@mdanderson.org>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Cc:        Jake Khuon <khuon@NEEBU.Net>
Subject:   Re: unusually high load averages
Message-ID:  <200401291543.29787.syjef@mdanderson.org>
In-Reply-To: <200401292134.i0TLYSfD019841@Espresso.NEEBU.Net>
References:  <200401292134.i0TLYSfD019841@Espresso.NEEBU.Net>

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On Thursday 29 January 2004 03:34 pm, Jake Khuon wrote:
> I'm noticing some unusually high load averages even though nothing seems =
to
> be taking up much CPU.  This started happening with a recent cvsup (last
> night).  Anyone know what might be causing this?
>

Run `top` and see what your interrupts are doing. I'd guess you're sufferin=
g=20
from the IRQ20 storm.  vmstat -i should also tell you that.  A patch was=20
posted to this list in the last couple of weeks that deals with this.  It i=
s=20
working for me (I first ran into this a couple of days ago).

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Jonathan Fosburgh
AIX and Storage Administrator
UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, TX=20
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