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Date:      Wed, 14 Nov 2001 13:14:27 +0000
From:      Josh Paetzel <friar_josh@webwarrior.net>
To:        "Peter C. Verhage" <peter@no-nonsense.org>
Cc:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Weird load averages
Message-ID:  <20011114131427.A91443@twincat.vladsempire.net>
In-Reply-To: <004101c16cd7$b714b2c0$0200000a@peter>; from peter@no-nonsense.org on Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 07:43:48AM %2B0100
References:  <004101c16cd7$b714b2c0$0200000a@peter>

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On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 07:43:48AM +0100, Peter C. Verhage wrote:
> last pid: 72033;  load averages:  1.01,  1.02,  0.94 up 18+11:55:05
> 07:38:59
> 38 processes:  1 running, 37 sleeping
> CPU states:  0.0% user,  0.0% nice,  0.0% system,  1.2% interrupt, 98.8%
> idle
> Mem: 107M Active, 76M Inact, 33M Wired, 12M Cache, 35M Buf, 20M Free
> Swap: 512M Total, 156K Used, 512M Free
> 
> 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... :/
> 
> Peter
> 
> P.S.
> Running: FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE #2: Fri Oct 26 20:31:04 CEST 2001
> (sources where updated on the same day...)
> 

I am running a system that has almost identical stats when I do a top, 
except that my load averages are 0 0 0.  Try doing a top -s.01  Every 
instance of this I start causes my load average to jump about 1.0 or 
so.  I should warn that I am on an SMP system, I don't know how top 
deals with that.  But anyways, my thinking is that by starting a high 
load process your load averages should go up.  If they don't it must 
be some sort of evil bug. 

Josh


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