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Date:      Sun, 6 Apr 1997 12:12:15 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Brian Tao <taob@risc.org>
To:        FREEBSD-CURRENT-L <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   XFree86 3.2 causes constant 1.0 load average?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95.970406120732.13146E-100000@alpha.risc.org>

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    Has anyone else noticed that XFree86 3.2 will in many cases (but
not always) cause a 2.2 or 3.0 system to report a load average of at
least 1.0?  ps/top both indicate little or no CPU activity, but the
load average does not fall below 1.0 unless I kill off X.

    I'm running AfterStep 1.0pre6 as the window manager, but the X
application mix can vary (with or without Netscape running, xterm
windows with very little update activity, etc.)  What would cause
FreeBSD to report a load average of 1+ when there is no system load?


last pid: 13859;  load averages:  1.31,  1.42,  1.45                 12:09:25
50 processes:  1 running, 49 sleeping
CPU states:  0.4% user,  0.0% nice,  1.2% system,  0.0% interrupt, 98.5% idle
Mem: 33M Active, 3592K Inact, 15M Wired, 8280K Cache, 7644K Buf, 2364K Free
Swap: 128M Total, 24M Used, 104M Free, 19% Inuse

  PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE    RES STATE    TIME   WCPU    CPU COMMAND
 8121 root      2   0  7788K 16368K select 831:43  1.53%  1.53% XF86_Mach64
12566 taob      2   0   564K  1484K select   0:18  0.99%  0.99% xterm
13859 taob     28   0   324K   828K RUN      0:00  0.46%  0.38% top
 8182 taob      2   0  3140K  2112K select   0:21  0.11%  0.11% screen-3.7.1
13857 taob      2   0   600K   964K select   0:00  0.12%  0.11% vim

--
Brian Tao (BT300, taob@risc.org)
"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"




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