From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue May 15 8:50:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7C4437B43F for ; Tue, 15 May 2001 08:50:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f4FFo4c75456; Tue, 15 May 2001 08:50:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 08:50:04 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200105151550.f4FFo4c75456@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: Seth Subject: Re: kern/27334: load average constantly above 1.0, even when idle Reply-To: Seth Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR kern/27334; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Seth To: Ian Dowse 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message