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From: Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie>
Subject: Re: kern/27334: load average constantly above 1.0, even when idle 
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The following reply was made to PR kern/27334; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie>
To: seth@psychotic.aberrant.org
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, iedowse@maths.tcd.ie
Subject: Re: kern/27334: load average constantly above 1.0, even when idle 
Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 16:40:23 +0100

 In message <20010515140113.D071672501@psychotic.aberrant.org>, seth@psychotic.a
 berrant.org writes:
 >
 >This sounds similar to kern/21155, but occurs in -STABLE rather than
 >-CURRENT.  It didn't happen on my old system (a dual-proc ppro 200), but
 >there are so many differences: smp, 4.0 (vs -stable) that it's not a good
 >comparison.
 
 Hi, could you try downloading
 
 	http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~iedowse/FreeBSD/loadps.tgz
 
 and extracting the tarfile somewhere (/tmp or whatever). Then in the
 "loadps" directory, type:
 
 	make
 	./loadps axlww
 
 This should show up all processes that are currently contributing to
 the load average. That should at least begin to narrow down what
 is causing these phantom load effects.
 
 (loadps is a normal -STABLE ps with a small adjustment that causes it
 see only processes that are contributing to the load average - this
 logic is copied from loadav() in sys/vm/vm_meter.c).
 
 Ian

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