From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 25 15:20:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DA5137B401 for ; Sun, 25 Aug 2002 15:20:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail1.rolet.com (mail1.rolet.com [208.29.194.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FB0A43E42 for ; Sun, 25 Aug 2002 15:20:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rcovell@rolet.com) Received: from devh (mkc-65-26-14-45.kc.rr.com [65.26.14.45]) (authenticated) by mail1.rolet.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id g7PMO9b18383 for ; Sun, 25 Aug 2002 17:24:09 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <003701c24c85$ee9fb300$6401a8c0@kc.rr.com> From: "Robert Covell" To: Subject: Incorrect Uptime Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2002 17:22:38 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0034_01C24C5C.02A40100" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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

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%.

-Bob

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