Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2002 17:22:38 -0500 From: "Robert Covell" <rcovell@rolet.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Incorrect Uptime Message-ID: <003701c24c85$ee9fb300$6401a8c0@kc.rr.com>
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0034_01C24C5C.02A40100 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable We have a mail server running FreeBSD 4.1.1-RELEASE. Every so often, = say once a month, uptime says the server is running at 100% for 1, 5, = and 15 displays. But when I go into top the system is 100% idle (or = very close to it). The only way I have found to fix it is to reboot the = box. I have found out that if uptime return 1.00 for the one minute it = means the cpu is at 0% utilization. If it say 1.01 it is at 1% = utilization. Anyone have an idea of why this would be happening? We = use uptime to monitor the performance on the server, and cannot = determine why this would be happening when it is really not at 100%. -Bob ------=_NextPart_000_0034_01C24C5C.02A40100 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; = charset=3Diso-8859-1"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.2600.0" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>We have a mail server running FreeBSD=20 4.1.1-RELEASE. Every so often, say once a month, uptime says = the=20 server is running at 100% for 1, 5, and 15 displays. But when I go = into=20 top the system is 100% idle (or very close to it). The only way I = have=20 found to fix it is to reboot the box. I have found out that if = uptime=20 return 1.00 for the one minute it means the cpu is at 0% = utilization. If=20 it say 1.01 it is at 1% utilization. Anyone have an idea of why = this would=20 be happening? We use uptime to monitor the performance on the = server, and=20 cannot determine why this would be happening when it is really not at=20 100%.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>-Bob</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_0034_01C24C5C.02A40100-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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