From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 19 13:12:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lists.blarg.net (lists.blarg.net [206.124.128.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EA7E37B401 for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 13:12:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from thig.blarg.net (thig.blarg.net [206.124.128.18]) by lists.blarg.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C1CDBD52; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 13:12:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([206.124.139.115]) by thig.blarg.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA05649; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 13:12:50 -0700 Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.3) id f9JKBU038897; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 13:11:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from swear@blarg.net) To: Ryan Thompson Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Loads on a Web/Shell Server References: From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 19 Oct 2001 13:11:29 -0700 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Lines: 15 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ryan Thompson writes: > The load averages are, at best, a comparative indication of the change in > load of one system over time. Unless your system is really unresponsive, > you needn't pay much attention to the load averages. If your system IS > really unresponsive, make a note of the load average, and see what is > eating all of your resources. My desktop system usually has load < 0.10, but under 4.2 & 4.3, it would a few times per day jump up to hover around 1.0 for about 20 minutes. Network device lights show no internet traffic, "ps" and "top" show nothing using unusual CPU or memory. Xosview (which runs continually) shows nothing unusual. In several weeks with 4.4, I've only seen this once, IIRC. Any ideas what could cause that behavior? (I'm fairly sure that my system monitoring tools (or anything else) have not been cracked.) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message