From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 29 13:45:52 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80BCB16A4CE for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 13:45:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.mdacc.tmc.edu (mail.mdanderson.org [143.111.251.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D3E143D4C for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 13:45:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from syjef@mdanderson.org) Received: from ([143.111.64.231]) by mail.mdacc.tmc.edu (InterScan E-Mail VirusWall Unix); Thu, 29 Jan 2004 15:45:42 -0600 (CST) From: Jonathan Fosburgh Organization: UT MD Anderson Cancer Center To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 15:43:22 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.6 References: <200401292134.i0TLYSfD019841@Espresso.NEEBU.Net> In-Reply-To: <200401292134.i0TLYSfD019841@Espresso.NEEBU.Net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200401291543.29787.syjef@mdanderson.org> X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 05:30:02 -0800 cc: Jake Khuon Subject: Re: unusually high load averages X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 21:45:52 -0000 =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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). =2D --=20 Jonathan Fosburgh AIX and Storage Administrator UT MD Anderson Cancer Center Houston, TX=20 =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAGX6AqUvQmqp7omYRAlo3AJ98OLzdsufY/3RDbauA9zSOaDiw/wCgqSN6 MSlNLnGKkL+mB7eKR7V5DNk=3D =3DLBLR =2D----END PGP SIGNATURE-----