From owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 23 00:07:22 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78C8416A401 for ; Mon, 23 Apr 2007 00:07:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from max@love2party.net) Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de (moutng.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.187]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D2A213C448 for ; Mon, 23 Apr 2007 00:07:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from max@love2party.net) Received: from [88.64.176.200] (helo=amd64.laiers.local) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrelayeu7) with ESMTP (Nemesis), id 0ML2xA-1Hflsm3Mld-0007hr; Mon, 23 Apr 2007 01:54:16 +0200 From: Max Laier Organization: FreeBSD To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 01:54:10 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <20070422225246.575EA5D7@fep7.cogeco.net> In-Reply-To: <20070422225246.575EA5D7@fep7.cogeco.net> X-Face: ,,8R(x[kmU]tKN@>gtH1yQE4aslGdu+2]; R]*pL,U>^H?)gW@49@wdJ`H<=?utf-8?q?=25=7D*=5FBD=0A=09U=5For=3D=5CmOZf764=26nYj=3DJYbR1PW0ud?=>|!~,,CPC.1-D$FG@0h3#'5"k{V]a~.<=?utf-8?q?mZ=7D44=23Se=7Em=0A=09Fe=7E=5C=5DX5B=5D=5Fxj?=(ykz9QKMw_l0C2AQ]}Ym8)fU MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart7548206.CTLQcQmGoc"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200704230154.15703.max@love2party.net> X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19UqXfFv/iuDueLWxxd+P7UuNwSztuAdsHZwfE E4TgMXyRmh40Q+a4C2vtIssziSn/ZtrdNgjU7dWbrvdpJVeFSM qR+LU+ycFRmR13bklnoug== Cc: Paul Subject: Re: System Cpu Between 50-70% and need to find out why X-BeenThere: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD SMP implementation group List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 00:07:22 -0000 --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--