Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 08:36:03 +0100 From: "Nicholas J. Dear" <ndear@areti.net> To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Funky load average Message-ID: <3B31B1F3.30360.12EE96@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0106210004220.15645-100000@workhorse.iMach.com>
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Forrest, We used to have this with a news server we ran. Little CPU and memory usage but a fair amount of disk I/O. The server was never slow, but the load average was always quite high. Asking around, we found this was normal and nothing to worry about. N. On 21 Jun 2001, at 0:10, Forrest W. Christian wrote: > I'm asking this here because I don't really monitor many of the other > lists anymore (too much to read too little time). > > Has anyone seen anything like this: (from top) > > last pid: 59601; load averages: 2.57, 2.76, 2.52 > 105 processes: 1 running, 104 sleeping > CPU states: 22.5% user,0.0% nice,3.9% system,0.4% interrupt,73.3% idle > Mem: 53M Active, 150M Inact, 46M Wired, 12K Cache, 61M Buf, 250M Free > Swap: 512M Total, 512M Free > > It is just sitting like this. It seems kinda bizzare that we have a > load over 2-3 and I'd guess the idle is around 50% average. > > (The load is usally between 2-3, the idle is usually between 30-70%, > and there isn't any swap usage). > > iostat doesn't seem too out of whack except the "b" column (blocked > processes) is usually over 10. > > Is there any way to tell what they are waiting for? It doesn't look > like disk, as the disk light was on only about 50% of the time when I > checked it earlier (when this was occuring). > > Can anyone shed some light on this? > > - Forrest W. Christian (forrestc@imach.com) AC7DE > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > The Innovation Machine Ltd. P.O. Box 5749 > http://www.imach.com/ Helena, MT 59604 > Home of PacketFlux Technogies and BackupDNS.com (406)-442-6648 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Protect your personal freedoms - visit http://www.lp.org/ > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > -- Nicholas J. Dear ndear@areti.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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