From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 10 13:23:07 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DD3A16A4CE for ; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 13:23:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sccmmhc92.asp.att.net (sccmmhc92.asp.att.net [204.127.203.212]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29FFC43D90 for ; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 13:23:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from david.fleck@mchsi.com) Received: from grond (12-216-7-29.client.mchsi.com[12.216.7.29]) by sccmmhc92.asp.att.net (sccmmhc92) with SMTP id <20050310132147m920039iipe>; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 13:22:02 +0000 Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 07:21:46 -0600 (CST) From: David Fleck Sender: dcf@grond.sourballs.org To: gpt@tirloni.org In-Reply-To: <20050310131240.5ee338b5@montana.myrte.ma.cx> Message-ID: <20050310071851.D98716@grond.sourballs.org> References: <42302BF1.70305@tirloni.org> <20050310131240.5ee338b5@montana.myrte.ma.cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Strange load averages on 5.3-STABLE X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 13:23:07 -0000 On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Michael Ross wrote: >> last pid: 771; load averages: 176.65, 770.13, 926.55 up 0+00:03:13 08:11:07 >> > Your may have compiled kernel and userland from different sources. > " and programs like ps(1) and top(1) will fail to work until the kernel and source code versions are the same." from the handbook is what comes to my mind. I've also seen ridiculously-high load numbers when NFS-mounted filesystems are inaccessible. Usually that degrades system performance, though. -- David Fleck david.fleck@mchsi.com