From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 16 07:52:57 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id HAA28128 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 16 Sep 1997 07:52:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from milo.cfw.com (milo.cfw.com [205.219.240.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id HAA28121 for ; Tue, 16 Sep 1997 07:52:53 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199709161452.HAA28121@hub.freebsd.org> Received: (qmail 26097 invoked from network); 16 Sep 1997 14:54:19 -0000 Received: from ra26wb23.cfw.com (HELO pauls2) (208.217.184.197) by milo.cfw.com with SMTP; 16 Sep 1997 14:54:19 -0000 From: "Paul Missman" To: , "abbott at MPCA" Subject: Re: busy machine - doing nothing. Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 10:52:51 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1008.3 X-MimeOle: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE Engine V4.71.1008.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Try systat -vmstat. This will show you counts of interrupts/sec being processed in addition to a CPU graph, process count, and loads. This may give you a better idea of what is happening. You can also run top in one virtual terminal and systat in another, so you can get a quick look at the process list. An explanation of the data shown by systat -vmstat is available in the systat man pages. Good hunting, Paul Missman From: abbott at MPCA >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 > >