From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 13 8:49: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from righi.dhs.org (RIGHI.DF.UNIBO.IT [137.204.49.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B135114F86 for ; Thu, 13 Jan 2000 08:48:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bsd@righi.dhs.org) Received: from localhost (bsd@localhost) by righi.dhs.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA03283; Thu, 13 Jan 2000 17:51:02 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from bsd@righi.dhs.org) Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 17:51:02 +0100 (CET) From: FreeBSD mailing list To: spork Cc: Jonathan Chen , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: high load, nothing happening? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG what ???? you are asking why high load ??? don;t you see you have 500 processes on your box ?? it's normal to have 3 of load average if you got 500 processes! Rick On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, spork wrote: > > On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Jonathan Chen wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 05:45:56PM -0500, spork wrote: > > > > [...] > > > So that's the info, my questions are "why the load", and "is that OK"? > > > Something seems wrong here, but I'm at a loss. > > > > What does top(1) report? > > Not much: > > last pid: 23684; load averages: 3.74, 1.96, 1.46 up 7+21:10:15 10:35:38 > 449 processes: 1 running, 448 sleeping > CPU states: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 2.7% system, 0.0% interrupt, 97.3% idle > Mem: 62M Active, 355M Inact, 45M Wired, 8350K Buf, 418M Free > Swap: 784M Total, 784M Free > > PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND > 23684 root 30 0 1976K 944K RUN 0:00 3.08% 0.29% top > 904 root 2 -12 1036K 720K select 0:31 0.00% 0.00% xntpd > 4163 root 2 0 1468K 1096K select 0:13 0.00% 0.00% > httpd-apache_1 > 3399 root 2 0 1468K 1096K select 0:13 0.00% 0.00% > httpd-apache_1 > > Weird... > > Charles > > > Jonathan Chen > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Contrary to popular belief, > > penguins are not the salvation of modern technology. > > Neither do they throw parties for the urban proletariat. > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message