From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue May 15 9: 3:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from ringworld.nanolink.com (ringworld.nanolink.com [195.24.48.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 90DC337B424 for ; Tue, 15 May 2001 09:03:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from roam@orbitel.bg) Received: (qmail 18971 invoked by uid 1000); 15 May 2001 16:02:51 -0000 Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 19:02:51 +0300 From: Peter Pentchev To: Ian Dowse 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> Mail-Followup-To: Ian Dowse , freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org References: <200105151550.f4FFo3O75450@freefall.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200105151550.f4FFo3O75450@freefall.freebsd.org>; from iedowse@maths.tcd.ie on Tue, May 15, 2001 at 08:50:03AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 > 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