Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 01:54:10 +0200 From: Max Laier <max@love2party.net> To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Cc: Paul <bsdlist@cogeco.ca> Subject: Re: System Cpu Between 50-70% and need to find out why Message-ID: <200704230154.15703.max@love2party.net> In-Reply-To: <20070422225246.575EA5D7@fep7.cogeco.net> References: <20070422225246.575EA5D7@fep7.cogeco.net>
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--nextPart7548206.CTLQcQmGoc Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Monday 23 April 2007 00:52, Paul wrote: > >Uh you had the right idea but forgot to paste the relevant bits ;-) > > > >top *is* the tool for working out what processes are using your CPU. > >Although your high load average suggests that your system is just > >heavily loaded and it is expected that it will be using 100% CPU. > > > >Kris > > Dear Kris, > > Thanks for your e-mail. > > The odd thing is that I just switched from an old 4.12 box with dual > xeon (only 2 processors) with 4 gb of ram to the 6.2 with the extra > ram and dual core dual zeons (technically twice the cpus:) and 4* the > ram.... > > This one is dying and the other older "so called slower" system works > much better with as close to the same configuration as I can make it. > > I have to assume something is wrong here but I will keep digging as > this is not even workable. > > The system cpu is still high if I get rid of the memory drive and > have it save on the disks. It takes a lifetime to build a kernel now... > > Any way I can view what is made up of the 50-70% system cpu to be > able to pinpoint the bottleneck? > > I have tried to trim down the ipfw rules to see if this was the > culprit but this does not seem to be making a difference so far. "vmstat -i" could help to rule out interrupt storms. "top -S" will show=20 in-kernel threads as will "systat". Maybe these help. =2D-=20 /"\ Best regards, | mlaier@freebsd.org \ / Max Laier | ICQ #67774661 X http://pf4freebsd.love2party.net/ | mlaier@EFnet / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML Mail and News --nextPart7548206.CTLQcQmGoc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBGK/WnXyyEoT62BG0RAtsmAJ0WeSuj/NYXspxzNAzd9mSXwMJAMgCfVWDm qax9sOpXL0RX8ATGfXGkDrs= =uAdU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart7548206.CTLQcQmGoc--
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