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Date:      Tue, 19 Apr 2005 21:11:44 -0500
From:      "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net>
To:        Damian Gerow <dgerow@afflictions.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: load > 1, no process using >10% CPU...?
Message-ID:  <20050420021144.GI31036@over-yonder.net>
In-Reply-To: <20050420020524.GG770@afflictions.org>
References:  <20050420011930.GF770@afflictions.org> <20050420020524.GG770@afflictions.org>

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On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 10:05:24PM -0400 I heard the voice of
Damian Gerow, and lo! it spake thus:
> 
> It turned out to be a runaway xmms process.  But I still find it
> strange that it didn't show anything obvious in top.

Threaded processes don't rack up CPU%.  It's an (annoying) side effect
of the KSE-based threading libraries.  There've been a few discussions
about it, but last I heard there wasn't any concensus on how to fix
it.


-- 
Matthew Fuller     (MF4839)   |  fullermd@over-yonder.net
Systems/Network Administrator |  http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/
           On the Internet, nobody can hear you scream.



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