From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 29 15:32:45 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 3332C16A4CE for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 15:32:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from Espresso.NEEBU.Net (espresso.neebu.net [66.166.158.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1F4C543D2D for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 15:32:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from khuon@Espresso.NEEBU.Net) Received: from Espresso.NEEBU.Net (khuon@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Espresso.NEEBU.Net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i0TNWg7v021396 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 15:32:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from Espresso.NEEBU.Net (khuon@localhost)i0TNWf3R021395 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 15:32:42 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200401292332.i0TNWf3R021395@Espresso.NEEBU.Net> From: "Jake Khuon" To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Dcc: In-reply-to: Jonathan Fosburgh's message of Thu, 29 Jan 2004 15:43:22 -0600. <200401291543.29787.syjef@mdanderson.org> Action: Expires: Precedence: Priority: Normal X-Face: "(e&e|OIYrcV1x8y?txN%k1E2f[qWLjRjOn+a30)3>x`Wx%_9XiXs\IO2#G5L1m=c/|^h|z29wJ#]D/.?Ks,Mw1 X-URI: http://Espresso.NEEBU.Net/~khuon/ X-Organisation: Network Engineers for Effective Bandwidth Utilisation X-Header: /usr/include gives great headers X-System: Sun UltraSPARCstation2/2300MP running SunOS Release 5.8 X-Shell: tcsh 6.07.02 (Astron) 1996-10-27 (sparc-sun-solaris) options 8b,nls,dl,al,ng,rh X-Chtorr: History is full of revisionists. Where it used to say "THOU SHALT NOT KILL" it now says, "except as specified in section III-B, Paragraph 12, Sub-section D, Schedule 3." If that still doesn't suit you, wait till next year's commandments come out and trade it in for something that does. X-Mailer: MH 6.8.4 #4[UCI] (Espresso.NEEBU.Net) of Mon Feb 19 15:14:03 EST 1996 Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 15:32:41 -0800 Sender: khuon@Espresso.NEEBU.Net Subject: Re: unusually high load averages X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 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 23:32:45 -0000 ### On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 15:43:22 -0600, Jonathan Fosburgh ### casually decided to expound upon ### freebsd-current@freebsd.org the following thoughts about "Re: unusually ### high load averages": JF> Run `top` and see what your interrupts are doing. I'd guess you're suffering last pid: 1011; load averages: 1.14, 0.93, 0.98 up 0+00:26:38 15:30:09 85 processes: 2 running, 73 sleeping, 10 waiting CPU states: 0.8% user, 0.0% nice, 0.8% system, 0.4% interrupt, 98.1% idle Mem: 35M Active, 94M Inact, 38M Wired, 2480K Cache, 34M Buf, 74M Free Swap: 1024M Total, 1024M Free PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND 11 root -16 0 0K 12K RUN 22:39 98.83% 98.83% idle 661 root 96 0 42416K 33140K select 0:04 0.05% 0.05% XFree86 ... JF> from the IRQ20 storm. vmstat -i should also tell you that. A patch was # vmstat -i interrupt total rate irq0: clk 158958 99 irq1: atkbd0 5423 3 irq6: fdc0 2 0 irq8: rtc 203476 127 irq11: cbb0 cbb1++* 91496 57 irq12: psm0 11877 7 irq13: npx0 1 0 irq14: ata0 49687 31 irq15: ata1 57 0 Total 520977 327 JF> posted to this list in the last couple of weeks that deals with this. It is JF> working for me (I first ran into this a couple of days ago). I tried to apply the patch but it didn't go in cleanly so I'll have to hand-massage it. I did start running into this when I enabled ACPI because the apm module is causing my kernel to panic for some reason. However I also notice this when I have ACPI disabled too. -- /*===================[ Jake Khuon ]======================+ | Packet Plumber, Network Engineers /| / [~ [~ |) | | --------------- | | for Effective Bandwidth Utilisation / |/ [_ [_ |) |_| N E T W O R K S | +=========================================================================*/