Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 15:23:14 +0000 From: Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie> To: "Peter C. Verhage" <peter@no-nonsense.org> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Weird load averages Message-ID: <200111141523.aa20567@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 14 Nov 2001 07:43:48 %2B0100." <004101c16cd7$b714b2c0$0200000a@peter>
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In message <004101c16cd7$b714b2c0$0200000a@peter>, "Peter C. Verhage" writes: >last pid: 72033; load averages: 1.01, 1.02, 0.94 up 18+11:55:05 > >Check the load averages. They have been like that for over 5 minutes now >(I've been looking at it for 5 minutes now, so maybe even longer...). And >they don't change! If I look at the CPU states and if I look at the CPU time >of every process it's almost 0.00 for each process. So I don't understand >why the load averages don't decrease... :/ Sometimes such "phantom" loads can occur when a system process such as the bufdaemon becomes synchronised with the timing of the samples that determine the system load average. In -current, some random variation has been added to the sample timing to avoid this problem; I must merge that change into -stable soon. Ian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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