From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 16 06:15:06 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id GAA23096 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 16 Sep 1997 06:15:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wolf.co.net (wolf.co.net [206.9.120.233]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id GAA23084 for ; Tue, 16 Sep 1997 06:14:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pink (pink.pca.state.mn.us [156.98.19.13]) by wolf.co.net (8.6.8/8.6.6) with SMTP id IAA10228 for ; Tue, 16 Sep 1997 08:16:52 -0500 Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.19970916081456.009c3db0@wolf.co.net> X-Sender: jabbott@wolf.co.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.3 (32) Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 08:14:56 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: abbott at MPCA Subject: busy machine - doing nothing. Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I have a machine that is running almost nothing but yet it's load average is 2+. I can't figure out what it is doing. Here is a run from top. load averages: 2.25, 2.20, 2.13 03:12:33 33 processes: 1 running, 32 sleeping CPU states: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.0% system, 0.0% interrupt, 100% idle Memory: Real: 1652K/14M Virt: 4928K/169M Free: 95M PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND 14124 jabbott 18 0 228K 320K sleep 0:00 0.00% 0.00% csh 109 root 18 0 72K 84K sleep 0:25 0.00% 0.00% update 22 root 10 0 748K 6648K sleep 0:00 0.00% 0.00% mount_mfs 165 root 10 0 360K 492K sleep 2:00 0.00% 0.00% httpd 1 root 10 0 156K 296K sleep 0:00 0.00% 0.00% init 163 root 10 0 224K 212K sleep 0:37 0.00% 0.00% runbb.sh 119 root 10 0 72K 40K sleep 0:00 0.00% 0.00% nfsiod 120 root 10 0 72K 40K sleep 0:00 0.00% 0.00% nfsiod 121 root 10 0 72K 40K sleep 0:00 0.00% 0.00% nfsiod 122 root 10 0 72K 40K sleep 0:00 0.00% 0.00% nfsiod 167 root 3 0 148K 300K sleep 0:00 0.00% 0.00% getty 161 msql 2 0 572K 524K sleep 0:21 0.00% 0.00% msql2d 16238 nobody 2 0 668K 400K sleep 0:00 0.00% 0.00% httpd 14123 root 2 0 268K 396K sleep 0:00 0.00% 0.00% telnetd 11934 nobody 2 0 668K 380K sleep 0:00 0.00% 0.00% httpd As you can see there is almost nothing running. Does anyone have any suggestions as to what could be causing the busyness? here is also a run from netstat, the collisons are kind of high... bopp: {2} % netstat -i Name Mtu Network Address Ipkts Ierrs Opkts Oerrs Coll ef0 1500 00:a0:24:94:91:4b 7303715 0 203245 0 1681 ef0 1500 156.98.19/2 bopp 7303715 0 203245 0 1681 pe0* 1500 00:00:00:00:00:00 0 0 0 0 0 xir0* 1500 00:00:00:00:00:00 0 0 0 0 0 lo0 1536 130 0 130 0 0 lo0 1536 loopback-ne localhost 130 0 130 0 0 Any information appreciated. --ja