From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Jan 8 18:15:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from firebat.Bushong.NET (c128625-a.frmt1.sfba.home.com [24.5.196.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E924614BE3 for ; Sat, 8 Jan 2000 18:15:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dbushong@firebat.Bushong.NET) Received: (from dbushong@localhost) by firebat.Bushong.NET (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA52577; Sat, 8 Jan 2000 18:15:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dbushong) Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2000 18:15:11 -0800 From: David Bushong To: Georg Graf Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: load spike strangeness Message-ID: <20000108181511.B49321@Bushong.NET> References: <20000108104902.A47984@Bushong.NET> <20000108204803.A21403@tk212017119140.teleweb.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20000108204803.A21403@tk212017119140.teleweb.at>; from georg-stable@tk212017119140.teleweb.at on Sat, Jan 08, 2000 at 08:48:03PM +0100 X-Floating-Sheep-Port: 0xbaa Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Jan 08, 2000 at 08:48:03PM +0100, Georg Graf wrote: > assuming you do not have setiathome running (;-) if could think > of some process waiting for a fast device. This could even be your > tape drive. > Anything got stuck there sometime and still waiting for a new tape or > stuff? > Nope, nothing happening with the tape drive at all when this happens. Thanks for the thought, though. Re: mention of overclocking. If someone would like to explain what effect overclocking could have on load reporting, I'd love to know. This happened before I started overclocking. Also: I don't run seti@home or anything cpu intensive in the background. --David Bushong To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message