From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 29 20:05:27 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 13AD316A4CF for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 20:05:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F17B343D46 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 20:05:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fledge.watson.org (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i0U430Ud075343; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 23:03:01 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Received: from localhost (robert@localhost)i0U430ne075340; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 23:03:00 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 23:03:00 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: Jake Khuon In-Reply-To: <200401292134.i0TLYSfD019841@Espresso.NEEBU.Net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: unusually high load averages X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 04:05:27 -0000 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 > > > -- > /*===================[ Jake Khuon ]======================+ > | Packet Plumber, Network Engineers /| / [~ [~ |) | | --------------- | > | for Effective Bandwidth Utilisation / |/ [_ [_ |) |_| N E T W O R K S | > +=========================================================================*/ > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >