From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 19 15:57:53 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7014B1065686 for ; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:57:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jalmberg@identry.com) Received: from mx1.identry.com (on.identry.com [66.111.0.194]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F303B8FC1B for ; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:57:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jalmberg@identry.com) Received: (qmail 40339 invoked by uid 89); 19 Nov 2008 15:57:51 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.110?) (jalmberg@75.127.142.66) by mx1.identry.com with ESMTPA; 19 Nov 2008 15:57:51 -0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v753.1) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: John Almberg Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:57:50 -0500 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.753.1) Subject: snmpd strangeness X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:57:53 -0000 I just noticed something odd and am looking for ideas... As you can see from the top snippet below, snmpd is getting hammered by something. As a comparison, the load averages for this quad-core box are usually close to zero. I'm not even sure I'm using snmpd for anything... not even sure what it is, precisely. I'm digging into docs at the moment, but any ideas much appreciated. -- John last pid: 38974; load averages: 1.24, 1.40, 1.58 342 processes: 6 running, 336 sleeping CPU states: 13.7% user, 0.0% nice, 13.9% system, 0.3% interrupt, 72.1% idle Mem: 5997M Active, 596M Inact, 420M Wired, 206M Cache, 214M Buf, 457M Free Swap: 16G Total, 123M Used, 16G Free PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE C TIME WCPU COMMAND 45136 root 1 104 0 2636M 2621M CPU5 4 254.1H 103.91% snmpd 37368 www 1 20 0 193M 46232K lockf 6 0:05 3.91% httpd 38819 identry 1 -32 0 7688K 2648K CPU0 0 0:02 1.61% top