From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 17 03:51:13 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 1314516A402 for ; Sat, 17 Feb 2007 03:51:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doublef-ctm@yandex.ru) Received: from smtp2.yandex.ru (smtp2.yandex.ru [213.180.200.18]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D32E13C442 for ; Sat, 17 Feb 2007 03:51:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doublef-ctm@yandex.ru) Received: from [85.172.94.129] ([85.172.94.129]:59111 "EHLO shark" smtp-auth: "doublef-ctm" TLS-CIPHER: TLS-PEER-CN1: ) by mail.yandex.ru with ESMTP id S3427319AbXBQDvG (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Feb 2007 06:51:06 +0300 X-Comment: RFC 2476 MSA function at smtp2.yandex.ru logged sender identity as: doublef-ctm Received: by shark (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C5A5E172F5; Sat, 17 Feb 2007 06:43:22 +0300 (MSK) Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 06:43:22 +0300 From: Sergey Zaharchenko To: Nagy =?koi8-r?B?TOFzemzz?= Zsolt Message-ID: <20070217034322.GA2758@shark.localdomain> Mail-Followup-To: Sergey Zaharchenko , Nagy =?koi8-r?B?TOFzemzz?= Zsolt , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <45D5D042.4000202@designaproduct.biz> <45D5D81E.1080700@joeholden.co.uk> <45D5E1BA.6010504@freemail.hu> <20070216192503.GA7827@shark.localdomain> <20070216192847.GA8358@shark.localdomain> <45D60FD4.5010107@freemail.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="oyUTqETQ0mS9luUI" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <45D60FD4.5010107@freemail.hu> X-Listening-To: Silence User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 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: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 03:51:13 -0000 --oyUTqETQ0mS9luUI Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello Nagy! Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 09:11:00PM +0100 you wrote: > Now the CPU is almost idle. :-) However, the prcfr value is still=20 > between 400 and 500. Is that normal? Depends on the value and properties of 'almost'. If no processes enter and exit the system, it should be 0 (even if some process is constantly running --- this value only), and that's what I observe when I know no programs (like shell scripts) which start other programs are running. Under light load, it should be OK. If you're still afraid of forking processes, it's probably better to look at the last pid counter in the `top' display to show whether lots of presesses are being created. It's quite possible for prcfr to be in the tens of thousands when doing some 'find . |xargs -n 1 foo' stuff, especially where foo is a large program (because foo gets invoked for each file individually), and it's not a problem by itself. --=20 DoubleF No virus detected in this message. Ehrm, wait a minute... /kernel: pid 56921 (antivirus), uid 32000: exited on signal 9 Oh yes, no virus:) --oyUTqETQ0mS9luUI Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFF1nnawo7hT/9lVdwRAs08AJ9Z3X5fgTQSegmxmCZd+9XXAQ2yoQCfUbeC hIj3OPBHb/Hc5A/Z6CARem0= =Ds8z -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --oyUTqETQ0mS9luUI--