From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Dec 11 18:57:26 2000 From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 11 18:57:24 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from earth.backplane.com (placeholder-dcat-1076843399.broadbandoffice.net [64.47.83.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F9A537B400 for ; Mon, 11 Dec 2000 18:57:24 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by earth.backplane.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) id eBC2vC798971; Mon, 11 Dec 2000 18:57:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 18:57:12 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Dillon Message-Id: <200012120257.eBC2vC798971@earth.backplane.com> To: Kachun Lee Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Extreme high load with 12/7 4-releng References: <200012120230.SAA32402@pathlink.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG :I upgraded 2 of our servers from 4-releng around 4.1.1-release to one that :cvsup on Dec 7. Before the upgrade, the systems were running at load around :2. After the upgrade, the load went to over 40 just after few hours of :usage. Here was some data from top... 513 processes? What are you running on the machine? 'ps axl' By the feel of it I'm guessing a news machine, in which case it could simply be catching up on the feed. -Matt :----- :last pid: 26893; load averages: 36.05, 40.55, 47.01 up 0+04:29:07 :18:14:54 :513 processes: 9 running, 503 sleeping, 1 zombie :CPU states: 21.3% user, 0.7% nice, 30.0% system, 10.7% interrupt, 37.3% idle :Mem: 196M Active, 204M Inact, 83M Wired, 17M Cache, 61M Buf, 1152K Free :Swap: 600M Total, 17M Used, 583M Free, 2% Inuse, 232K Out :----- : :The one thing I noticed was the system started swaping constantly, even :though the Swap Used did not go up. Also, the system still had 204M Inact. :No Swap Used before the upgrade. : :I did some search on the mail lists and saw a long thread in hacker related :to vm_paging, but I could not find any conlusion to that thread. I did not :see any MFC, other than a vm issue that needed to turn on by sysctl, that :looked might be related. Any insight to this problem? : :Best regards To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message