Date: Wed, 8 Jul 1998 00:50:56 +0200 From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@panke.de.freebsd.org> To: Kevin Day <toasty@home.dragondata.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: -current wishlist Message-ID: <19980708005056.10385@panke.de> In-Reply-To: <199807020322.WAA05412@home.dragondata.com>; from Kevin Day on Wed, Jul 01, 1998 at 10:22:08PM -0500 References: <199807020322.WAA05412@home.dragondata.com>
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On 1998-07-01 22:22:08 -0500, Kevin Day wrote: > I don't know if there's a Santa Claus on -current right now, but I've got a > few suggestions/weak spots I see in -current now, and would be more than > willing to help anyone wanting to work on these. I'm not that deep into the > mysteries of the kernel to just do it myself, but I'm a willing test > subject. :) [...] > 8) Load average seems to have no bearing on how busy the system really is. > > last pid: 21803; load averages: 2.74, 2.82, 2.88 > 135 processes: 3 running, 131 sleeping, 1 zombie > CPU states: 1.7% user, 0.0% nice, 1.3% system, 1.7% interrupt, 95.2% idle > Mem: 75M Active, 12M Inact, 23M Wired, 6520K Cache, 8347K Buf, 8364K Free > Swap: 164M Total, 25M Used, 139M Free, 16% Inuse > > PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE C TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND > 21800 toasty 29 0 1664K 940K CPU0 1 0:00 2.15% 1.03% top > > If the load average is 2.74, how can the CPU be 95.2% idle? If it really is, > what's it waiting on so much? Or am I just misinterpreting this? The machine waits for i/o traffic. Processes which sleeps less than 1 second due net or disk i/o traffic counts as runnings processes. -- Wolfram Schneider <wosch@freebsd.org> http://www.freebsd.org/~w/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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