Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 08:50:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Seth <seth@psychotic.aberrant.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/27334: load average constantly above 1.0, even when idle Message-ID: <200105151550.f4FFo4c75456@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR kern/27334; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Seth <seth@psychotic.aberrant.org>
To: Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: kern/27334: load average constantly above 1.0, even when idle
Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 11:42:53 -0400
Ian,
Thanks. Here's the output:
psychotic 514: ./loadps axlww; uptime
UID PID PPID CPU PRI NI VSZ RSS WCHAN STAT TT TIME COMMAND
0 0 0 0 -18 0 0 0 sched DLs ?? 0:00.00 (swapper)
0 4 0 0 -18 0 0 0 psleep DL ?? 0:00.08 (bufdaemon)
1000 1994 1725 1 28 0 1084 616 - R+ p3 0:00.00 ./loadps axlww
11:42AM up 13:24, 4 users, load averages: 1.06, 1.03, 1.01
Seth.
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 04:40:23PM +0100, Ian Dowse wrote:
> 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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