From owner-freebsd-current Sun Apr 13 19:17:49 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA09098 for current-outgoing; Sun, 13 Apr 1997 19:17:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from proxy1.ba.best.com (root@proxy1.ba.best.com [206.184.139.12]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA09088 for ; Sun, 13 Apr 1997 19:17:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bsampley.vip.best.com (bsampley.vip.best.com [206.184.160.196]) by proxy1.ba.best.com (8.8.5/8.8.3) with SMTP id TAA19091; Sun, 13 Apr 1997 19:14:40 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 13 Apr 1997 19:13:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Burton Sampley To: Brian Tao cc: "Chris A. Mattingly" , Mark Mayo , Tom Bartol , FREEBSD-CURRENT-L Subject: Re: XFree86 3.2 causes constant 1.0 load average? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk That's kinda strange. I have been using 3.0-current and XFree86 3.2 for quite some time. I haven't experienced this problem. I'm using AcceleratedX as my X server. Even running Netscape doesn't cause a load greater than 0.60. I just CVSUP'd and did make world + recompiled my kernel on Friday night. My system is a ASUS P55-T2P4 P5-133 w/ 64MB EDO (non-parity), 2 EIDE HD's, ATAPI 8X CDROM and a Matrox Mystique w/ 4MB. BTW, what's the difference between each of the three load averages and what's the diff between SIZE & RES (you'll notice that Xaccel reports a RES =~ 3xSIZE)? Here's output from top: last pid: 3967; load averages: 0.50, 0.23, 0.09 19:01:08 35 processes: 1 running, 34 sleeping CPU states: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 1.2% system, 0.0% interrupt, 98.8% idle Mem: 28M Active, 6676K Inact, 15M Wired, 5240K Cache, 7643K Buf, 7688K Free Swap: 64M Total, 5632K Used, 59M Free, 9% Inuse PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND 186 burton 2 0 5056K 16848K select 7:46 1.79% 1.79% Xaccel 3966 burton 2 0 2616K 3592K select 0:00 1.21% 0.95% emacs 3937 burton 2 0 11620K 6972K select 0:05 0.76% 0.76% netscape.bin 197 burton 18 0 656K 1572K pause 8:46 0.00% 0.00% xearth 1451 mailhost 18 0 288K 508K pause 0:01 0.00% 0.00% fetchmail 111 root 18 0 332K 404K pause 0:01 0.00% 0.00% cron 23 root 18 0 204K 0K pause 0:00 0.00% 0.00% adjkerntz 185 burton 10 0 172K 608K wait 0:00 0.00% 0.00% xinit 161 burton 10 0 880K 480K wait 0:00 0.00% 0.00% bash 206 burton 10 0 488K 92K wait 0:00 0.00% 0.00% sh 210 burton 10 0 488K 92K wait 0:00 0.00% 0.00% sh [sniped] On Sun, 13 Apr 1997, Brian Tao wrote: > On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, Chris A. Mattingly wrote: > > > > Something else I've noticed is that serial traffic via usermode ppp > > causes the load to go higher than it used to.. but only some of the > > times, kinda like the 1.0 load. :-/ > > Originally I thought it was user PPP as well, but I'm not running > that on my work machine, and it has the load average problem as well. > -- > Brian Tao (BT300, taob@netcom.ca) > "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't" > > --- Brought to you by a 100% Micro$oft free system. You too can disinfect your system at http://www.freebsd.org E-Mail: burton@bsampley.vip.best.com Alternate E-Mail: bsampley@haywire.csuhayward.edu Home Page: http://www.best.com/~bsampley (permanently under construction)