From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jul 16 10: 7:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net (harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.121.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8B6837B408 for ; Mon, 16 Jul 2001 10:07:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from mindspring.com (dialup-209.245.130.87.Dial1.SanJose1.Level3.net [209.245.130.87]) by harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA03660; Mon, 16 Jul 2001 10:07:39 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3B531F81.8C6B4C05@mindspring.com> Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 10:08:17 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Reply-To: tlambert2@mindspring.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dan Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pagedaemon + vmdaemon References: <20010715181123.A29164-100000@gandalf.bravenet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dan wrote: > > USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND > root 2 14.2 0.0 0 0 ?? DL Tue11AM 4:35.33 (pagedaemon) > root 3 12.7 0.0 0 0 ?? DL Tue11AM 1:56.25 (vmdaemon) > > Cpu kept hitting high load averages on machines for about 1 min periods on > some machines on some apache servers. I wrote a script to catch the > offending processes and it seems to be these ones. Ideas on why they would > be taking that much cpu? Generally speaking, it probably means that you are swapping a lot because you are running more programs than you have RAM available to run. If you add RAM, or run fewer programs, this will go away. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message