Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 09:48:43 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: Charles Sprickman <spork@inch.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, noc@inch.com Subject: Re: high load, nothing happening? (LONG) Message-ID: <20000119094843.A65970@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001190213310.18965-100000@shell.inch.com>; from "Charles Sprickman" on Wed Jan 19 02:18:56 GMT 2000 References: <20000118171034.A4871@dan.emsphone.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001190213310.18965-100000@shell.inch.com>
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In the last episode (Jan 19), Charles Sprickman said: > On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Dan Nelson wrote: > > The handbook instructions are for kernel-generated panics; for a > > manual panic like yours, the stack is unimportant. The easiest way > > to see which processes are active is to run this: > > > > (kgdb) source /usr/src/sys/modules/vinum/.gdbinit.kernel > > Interesting, what's this do? It loads a whole slew of gdb macros that Greg Lehey put together while debugging vinum. > > (kgdb) ps > > > And look at the 'stat' column. Any processes with a stat of 1 or 2 > > are in the 'runnable' queue, which is what loadav measures. There > > should be 3 or so processes in that state. > > Did that, and every process had a stat of "3". Hm. Then your instantaneous loadavg at the time of the dump was 0. > More importantly, this machine is just sitting here waiting to be put > in production, so I'm more than willing to play around with it like > this while I still can... Thanks for the ongoing help, I've never > touched a debugger before, and this has been educational so far. I'm > coming off a week or two of playing with NT machines, and it's nice > to at least be able to gather some info about what the machine is > doing with OS-supplied tools, which is something I found very > difficult to do in NT GUI-land. Have you tried moving the apache binary from your running server over to this one and see if the load goes down? I mentioned before that it looked like you were running two different versions of apache. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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