From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jul 16 13: 3:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from meow.osd.bsdi.com (meow.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FEA537B406 for ; Mon, 16 Jul 2001 13:03:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (john@jhb-laptop.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.241]) by meow.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.4/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f6GK3Pv72692; Mon, 16 Jul 2001 13:03:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20010715181123.A29164-100000@gandalf.bravenet.com> Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 13:03:33 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin To: Dan Subject: RE: pagedaemon + vmdaemon Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 16-Jul-01 Dan wrote: > > USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND > root 2 14.2 0.0 0 0 ?? DL Tue11AM 4:35.33 (pagedaemon) > root 3 12.7 0.0 0 0 ?? DL Tue11AM 1:56.25 (vmdaemon) > > Cpu kept hitting high load averages on machines for about 1 min periods on > some machines on some apache servers. I wrote a script to catch the > offending processes and it seems to be these ones. Ideas on why they would > be taking that much cpu? These processes manage the VM paging, so perhaps you are running low on memory and trashing? -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message