From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 22 16:53:33 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: amd64@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4F8216A439 for ; Fri, 22 Jul 2005 16:53:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com) Received: from mail27.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail27.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.29]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5E6F44189 for ; Fri, 22 Jul 2005 16:28:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com) Received: (qmail 19425 invoked from network); 22 Jul 2005 16:28:26 -0000 Received: from aldan.algebra.com ([216.254.65.224]) (envelope-sender ) by mail27.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 22 Jul 2005 16:28:24 -0000 Received: from corbulon.video-collage.com (static-151-204-231-237.bos.east.verizon.net [151.204.231.237]) by aldan.algebra.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j6MGSG4d097344 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Fri, 22 Jul 2005 12:28:21 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com) Received: from mteterin.us.murex.com (195-11.customer.cloud9.net [168.100.195.11]) by corbulon.video-collage.com (8.13.4/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j6MGSA2p039297 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 22 Jul 2005 12:28:11 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com) Received: from mteterin.us.murex.com (mteterin@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mteterin.us.murex.com (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j6MGS4no076848; Fri, 22 Jul 2005 12:28:04 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by mteterin.us.murex.com (8.13.3/8.13.3/Submit) id j6MGS3pC076847; Fri, 22 Jul 2005 12:28:03 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com) X-Authentication-Warning: mteterin.us.murex.com: mteterin set sender to mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com using -f From: Mikhail Teterin Organization: Virtual Estates, Inc. To: John-Mark Gurney Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 12:28:03 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.1 References: <200507200419.j6K4Jpgd083006@blue.virtual-estates.net> <20050720053432.GA62369@funkthat.com> In-Reply-To: <20050720053432.GA62369@funkthat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="koi8-u" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200507221228.03573.mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV devel-20050525/987/Thu Jul 21 10:57:41 2005 on corbulon.video-collage.com X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.43 Cc: amd64@freebsd.org, stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OS suddenly VERY busy X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 16:53:33 -0000 ÓÅÒÅÄÁ 20 ÌÉÐÅÎØ 2005 01:34, John-Mark Gurney ÷É ÎÁÐÉÓÁÌÉ: > > This is a single-CPU Opteron running: > > > > ššššššFreeBSD 5.4-STABLE #0: Fri Jun 10 09:11:30 EDT 2005 amd64 > > > > The box has 2Gb of RAM, but NO SWAP. > run ps lax a few times, and notice which process is fork bombing your > box by seeing which process has the most changing children... If found the culprit, and it was not fork bombing. It was vlc (multimedia/vlc-devel), that was not supposed to do anything. On the list of interrupts I posted originally, observe the 40 to 50 irqs/sec on pcm. Once I told vlc to exit, the system returned back to normal... Does not seem right :-( -mi