From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 10 16:17:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92A3937B401 for ; Sun, 10 Nov 2002 16:17:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from tierzero.apana.org.au (sa.apana.org.au [203.14.158.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13FE943E3B for ; Sun, 10 Nov 2002 16:17:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bastill@sa.apana.org.au) Received: from BAPhD (dialup-8.pasa.apana.org.au [203.14.158.137]) by tierzero.apana.org.au (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id gAB0HJp48152 for ; Mon, 11 Nov 2002 10:47:19 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from bastill@sa.apana.org.au) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" From: Brian Astill Reply-To: bastill@sa.apana.org.au To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Load averages exceed 1 - but all seems well! Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2002 23:30:44 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200211102330.44828.bastill@sa.apana.org.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Running "fvcool -e -i" works just fine for me in keeping my Athlon CPU cool, BUT the output from TOP, shows: last pid: 2890; load averages: 1.10, 1.07, 1.00 up 1+02:45:27 23:20:20 66 processes: 2 running, 64 sleeping CPU states: 1.2% user, 98.4% nice, 0.4% system, 0.0% interrupt, 0.0% idle Mem: 112M Active, 139M Inact, 39M Wired, 11M Cache, 41M Buf, 11M Free Swap: 650M Total, 650M Free PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND 2814 root 97 20 872K 368K RUN 36:32 98.00% 98.00% fvcool Yet I can still run all the apps I wish, including X/Windowmaker, without any apparent loss of speed or stability. How is this possible? -- Regards, Brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message