From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 30 12:38:12 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2815C16A4CE for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2004 12:38:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from Espresso.NEEBU.Net (espresso.neebu.net [66.166.158.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AC2A443D3F for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2004 12:38:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from khuon@Espresso.NEEBU.Net) Received: from Espresso.NEEBU.Net (khuon@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Espresso.NEEBU.Net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i0UKc57v007509; Fri, 30 Jan 2004 12:38:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from Espresso.NEEBU.Net (khuon@localhost)i0UKc2ii007508; Fri, 30 Jan 2004 12:38:05 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200401302038.i0UKc2ii007508@Espresso.NEEBU.Net> From: "Jake Khuon" To: Kris Kennaway Dcc: In-reply-to: Kris Kennaway's message of Thu, 29 Jan 2004 15:15:22 -0800. <20040129231521.GA68516@xor.obsecurity.org> Action: Expires: Precedence: Priority: Normal X-Face: "(e&e|OIYrcV1x8y?txN%k1E2f[qWLjRjOn+a30)3>x`Wx%_9XiXs\IO2#G5L1m=c/|^h|z29wJ#]D/.?Ks,Mw1 X-URI: http://Espresso.NEEBU.Net/~khuon/ X-Organisation: Network Engineers for Effective Bandwidth Utilisation X-Header: /usr/include gives great headers X-System: Sun UltraSPARCstation2/2300MP running SunOS Release 5.8 X-Shell: tcsh 6.07.02 (Astron) 1996-10-27 (sparc-sun-solaris) options 8b,nls,dl,al,ng,rh X-Chtorr: History is full of revisionists. Where it used to say "THOU SHALT NOT KILL" it now says, "except as specified in section III-B, Paragraph 12, Sub-section D, Schedule 3." If that still doesn't suit you, wait till next year's commandments come out and trade it in for something that does. X-Mailer: MH 6.8.4 #4[UCI] (Espresso.NEEBU.Net) of Mon Feb 19 15:14:03 EST 1996 Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 12:38:02 -0800 Sender: khuon@Espresso.NEEBU.Net cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: unusually high load averages X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 20:38:12 -0000 ### On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 15:15:22 -0800, Kris Kennaway ### casually decided to expound upon Melvyn Sopacua ### 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 ]======================+ | Packet Plumber, Network Engineers /| / [~ [~ |) | | --------------- | | for Effective Bandwidth Utilisation / |/ [_ [_ |) |_| N E T W O R K S | +=========================================================================*/