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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