From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 13 10:15:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from super-g.com (super-g.com [207.240.140.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82681155B1 for ; Thu, 13 Jan 2000 10:15:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from spork@super-g.com) Received: by super-g.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4A5E110E4C; Thu, 13 Jan 2000 13:15:19 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by super-g.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 2D33810E46; Thu, 13 Jan 2000 13:15:19 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 13:15:19 -0500 (EST) From: spork X-Sender: spork@super-g.inch.com To: "Dave Dunaway (ncc0296)" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: high load, nothing happening? In-Reply-To: <20000113104807.H15141@corp.netcom.ca> 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 On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Dave Dunaway (ncc0296) wrote: > Hum....that could certainly contribute to load. Have you checked vmstat > to see what the system calls are like (frequency that is). Nothing's blocked, and the other numbers look very similar to much smaller boxes doing nothing: procs memory page disks faults cpu r b w avm fre flt re pi po fr sr da0 fd0 pa0 in sy cs us sy id 0 0 0 106760426976 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 230 474 155 0 0 99 0 0 0 106760426976 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 233 408 136 0 2 98 0 0 0 106760426976 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 235 408 136 0 2 98 0 0 0 106760426976 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 233 408 136 0 2 98 0 0 0 106420426976 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 235 462 155 0 2 98 Thanks, Charles > > 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 > > > -- > > > Dave Dunaway [ddunaway@netcom.ca] > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message