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Date:      Mon, 17 Mar 2008 19:44:12 +0100
From:      Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-performance@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: V7 High CPU Usage on swi5:+, what is this process?
Message-ID:  <frme5v$j29$1@ger.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <47de32b3.1bbc720a.7cf0.ffff8ff1@mx.google.com>
References:  <20080210120013.4C3D116A421@hub.freebsd.org> <47de32b3.1bbc720a.7cf0.ffff8ff1@mx.google.com>

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Aminuddin Abdullah wrote:
> I have just upgraded 5 of my machines to V7 from 6.3 and then realized =
that
> all the machines has a high CPU usage. Almost all of them using 80%-90%=
 CPU
> with more than 8000 connections. Using previous 6.3, it only uses 40-50=
% CPU
> with the same kind of connections.
>=20
> Using top -S, I can see that swi5: +, PID 17 process is using 30% of CP=
U
> time. What is this process? =20

"swi" stands for "software interrupt", but to find out which one you'll=20
need to give more information about the systems. What are they running?=20
Any routing, firewall? Check with "vmstat -ia" to see if you have an=20
interrupt storm.



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