Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 12:38:02 -0800 From: "Jake Khuon" <khuon@NEEBU.Net> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: unusually high load averages Message-ID: <200401302038.i0UKc2ii007508@Espresso.NEEBU.Net> In-Reply-To: Kris Kennaway's message of Thu, 29 Jan 2004 15:15:22 -0800. <20040129231521.GA68516@xor.obsecurity.org>
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### On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 15:15:22 -0800, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> ### casually decided to expound upon Melvyn Sopacua ### <freebsd-current@webteckies.org> the following thoughts about "Re: ### unusually high load averages": KK> On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 12:08:17AM +0100, Melvyn Sopacua wrote: KK> > On Thursday 29 January 2004 22:34, Jake Khuon wrote: KK> > KK> > > I'm noticing some unusually high load averages even though nothing KK> > > seem s to be taking up much CPU. This started happening with a KK> > > recent cvsup (last night). Anyone know what might be causing this? KK> > KK> > You are actually seeing > 0.00% CPU/WCPU, cause with me everything is KK> > zero, allthough I know for sure that's not true. KK> KK> You both forgot to mention which scheduler you're using. This is KK> important. Just as another datapoint. I had been using SCHED_4BSD and saw those high load averages. I then switched to SCHED_ULE and see the same thing. With next to no user applications running I sit just above 1 and with my normaly X environment running (where I normally sit well below 0.5) I'm seeing between 4 and 5. Like others I don't think the load is representatively true. And while this may be more aesthetics than anything (not really effecting me in any other way right now although it makes xload look pretty), some applications do track load avg during operations... such as say sendmail. -- /*===================[ Jake Khuon <khuon@NEEBU.Net> ]======================+ | Packet Plumber, Network Engineers /| / [~ [~ |) | | --------------- | | for Effective Bandwidth Utilisation / |/ [_ [_ |) |_| N E T W O R K S | +=========================================================================*/
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