From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 19 15: 6:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-31-203-60.mmcable.com [65.31.203.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5006E37B40D for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 15:06:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 9344 invoked by uid 100); 19 Oct 2001 22:06:52 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15312.41980.693724.651064@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 17:06:52 -0500 To: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Loads on a Web/Shell Server In-Reply-To: <133771165@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ 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 Gary W. Swearingen types: > 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.) If it's there for 20 minutes, I'd look for disk activity. I don't know if xosview will show that or not, but gkrellm does. If you haven't, check the cron logs. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Q: How do you make the gods laugh? A: Tell them your plans. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message