From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Nov 14 7:23:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from salmon.maths.tcd.ie (salmon.maths.tcd.ie [134.226.81.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1096837B417 for ; Wed, 14 Nov 2001 07:23:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from walton.maths.tcd.ie by salmon.maths.tcd.ie with SMTP id ; 14 Nov 2001 15:23:14 +0000 (GMT) To: "Peter C. Verhage" Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Weird load averages In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 14 Nov 2001 07:43:48 +0100." <004101c16cd7$b714b2c0$0200000a@peter> Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 15:23:14 +0000 From: Ian Dowse Message-ID: <200111141523.aa20567@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <004101c16cd7$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