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Date:      Thu, 29 Jan 2004 23:03:00 -0500 (EST)
From:      Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>
To:        Jake Khuon <khuon@NEEBU.Net>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: unusually high load averages
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1040129230155.75301A-100000@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <200401292134.i0TLYSfD019841@Espresso.NEEBU.Net>

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On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Jake Khuon wrote:

> I'm noticing some unusually high load averages even though nothing seems
> to be taking up much CPU.  This started happening with a recent cvsup
> (last night).  Anyone know what might be causing this? 

There were a couple of scheduler changes and a change in the way load
average is calculated, and the result is definitely wrong. :-)  I'm
running with a load average of about 1 right now, and the system is
completely idle (it really is, I promise).  So I don't think it's that the
system is working harder, so I think it's really a monitoring/calculating
problem. 

Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
robert@fledge.watson.org      Senior Research Scientist, McAfee Research


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