Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 10:05:39 -0800 (PST) From: Holt Grendal <holtor@yahoo.com> To: Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Load Averages Message-ID: <20011213180539.83207.qmail@web11601.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <200112131801.aa19310@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>
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Ian, Gotcha! I understand how it works now. So ever since freebsd was created until now load averages have been wrong. hehe ok :o) Holt --- Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie> wrote: > In message > <20011213172108.10411.qmail@web11606.mail.yahoo.com>, > Holtor writes: > >I still fail to see why my systems loads went from > >1.50 - 2.00. There's over 250 processes constantly > >running in "select" state. Loads are now almost > always > >0.00 and sometimes touching 0.10 > > The changes to the load average calculation only > added jitter to > the timing of samples; the algorithm used to compute > the load average > from the samples is still the same. Could you post a > `top' screen > shot from the server in question? (make sure to > leave top running > for long enough to get the %idle etc lines filled > in). > > Is it possible that the processes spend the vast > majority of the > time sleeping in select(), but that previously their > run periods > were often synchronised with the samples used to > calculate the load > average, or maybe it was system processes such as > bufdaemon whose > run period was synchronised with the samples? If so, > then maybe the > old loads around 2.0 were simply wrong. In general > the %idle figure > in top should be close to 100% if the load is close > to 0, so that > is worth checking too. > > Ian __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Check out Yahoo! Shopping and Yahoo! Auctions for all of your unique holiday gifts! Buy at http://shopping.yahoo.com or bid at http://auctions.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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