Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 19:02:51 +0300 From: Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg> To: Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie> Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/27334: load average constantly above 1.0, even when idle Message-ID: <20010515190250.W11592@ringworld.oblivion.bg> In-Reply-To: <200105151550.f4FFo3O75450@freefall.freebsd.org>; from iedowse@maths.tcd.ie on Tue, May 15, 2001 at 08:50:03AM -0700 References: <200105151550.f4FFo3O75450@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 08:50:03AM -0700, Ian Dowse wrote: > 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). Hey, this sure looks like it could be useful in high-load situations! Any chance of importing this into the base ps(1) under a new cmdline flag? G'luck, Peter -- When you are not looking at it, this sentence is in Spanish. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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