From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 19 12: 9:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from over.ru (over.rinet.ru [195.54.192.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1C9BC14FA5 for ; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 12:09:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tarkhil@over.ru) Received: (qmail 23011 invoked by uid 1000); 19 Jan 2000 20:08:51 -0000 Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 23:08:50 +0300 From: Alex Povolotsky To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Strange behaviour of loaded system Message-ID: <20000119230850.A92960@over.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello! I've observed a VERY strange behaviour of a moderately-to-heavy loaded system (load average about 5.7 on a 2xPII-400 with 512Mb of RAM): (I have no access to the box right now, and I'm giving only general details; however, I'll be able to produce more details next morning) About 200-300 processes (230-280, something always creates and dies), some swapping (I recall 36% right now), and the most strange thing: always some (4-14M) of free RAM, and about 100 pageins per second. Most of processes are modperl'ed Apaches and self-written POP3 readers. I have no good understanding of such behaviour. Unfortunately I cannot find my "UNIX Internals: The New Frontier" for several days, so I'm really limited on books. Maybe some kind soul will tell me how can system behave that way? Alex. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message