From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 16 18:42:34 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CDCC16A408 for ; Fri, 16 Feb 2007 18:42:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from joe@joeholden.co.uk) Received: from claire.ber.rewt.org.uk (claire.ber.rewt.org.uk [217.160.200.67]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A25913C47E for ; Fri, 16 Feb 2007 18:42:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from joe@joeholden.co.uk) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by claire.ber.rewt.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34356B8CF; Fri, 16 Feb 2007 18:42:33 +0000 (GMT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at claire.ber.rewt.org.uk Received: from claire.ber.rewt.org.uk ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (claire.ber.rewt.org.uk [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id GK89-ScD1lv3; Fri, 16 Feb 2007 18:42:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: from [192.168.10.147] (dsl172-67.as6911.net [62.84.172.67]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by claire.ber.rewt.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FF40B8B6; Fri, 16 Feb 2007 18:42:26 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <45D5FAFB.2080801@joeholden.co.uk> Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 18:42:03 +0000 From: Joe Holden User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Nagy_L=E1szl=F3_Zsolt?= References: <45D5D042.4000202@designaproduct.biz> <45D5F9A9.7090601@freemail.hu> In-Reply-To: <45D5F9A9.7090601@freemail.hu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Invisible process killing the CPU X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 18:42:34 -0000 Nagy László Zsolt wrote: > Laszlo Nagy wrote: >> 75% user, 24.2% system, 0.0% idle. Despite those stats, I do not see >> what is eating up 100% cpu time. I already restarted the computer but >> it is the same. This problem started some hours ago. The CPU is hot, I >> can feel it on the air stream pouring out the computer case. There are >> more people that should work with this computer, but they can't. It is >> terribly slow. Please help me. > Probably it is not a problem with the kernel (it was working before) but > I tried to upgrade to the latest 6.2 branch. make buildworld is so > incredibly slow that I don't think it will finish within a week. :-( > Compilation starts, but the C compiler only gets about 0.3% CPU time. > The remaining 99.7% is lost somewhere. :-( > > Laszlo Possible hardware problem perhaps? Are you able to run a "burn-in" test on the machine? Stabbing in the dark really. Ta, Joe