Date: Mon, 7 Apr 1997 00:31:09 -0400 (EDT) From: jack <jack@diamond.xtalwind.net> To: Justin Wolf <jjwolf@bleeding.com> Cc: FREEBSD-CURRENT-L <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, "'Brian Tao'" <taob@risc.org> Subject: RE: XFree86 3.2 causes constant 1.0 load average? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970407002817.3492C-100000@zeus.xtalwind.net> In-Reply-To: <01BC426E.D624C120@crimson>
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On Sun, 6 Apr 1997, Justin Wolf wrote: > To expand on this a little... what would cause 2.2 to report 1.0 > loadavgs when there's nothing going on? I've noticed this happening > after killing threads and such and rebooting is the only way to get it > back to 0. Is this a bug under 2.2? (Although I first noticed it after > running X, it's now happening even without.) > > -Justin Wolf > > ---------- > From: Brian Tao[SMTP:taob@risc.org] > Sent: Sunday, April 06, 1997 5:12 AM > To: FREEBSD-CURRENT-L > Subject: XFree86 3.2 causes constant 1.0 load average? > > Has anyone else noticed that XFree86 3.2 will in many cases (but > not always) cause a 2.2 or 3.0 system to report a load average of at > least 1.0? ps/top both indicate little or no CPU activity, but the > load average does not fall below 1.0 unless I kill off X. > > I'm running AfterStep 1.0pre6 as the window manager, but the X > application mix can vary (with or without Netscape running, xterm > windows with very little update activity, etc.) What would cause > FreeBSD to report a load average of 1+ when there is no system load? I've yet to notice that here with 2.2.1-RELEASE, and AfterStep. ????? last pid: 3510; load averages: 0.31, 0.44, 0.49 00:26:59 43 processes: 1 running, 42 sleeping CPU states: 0.8% user, 0.0% nice, 0.0% system, 0.0% interrupt, 99.2% idle Mem:14M Active, 4372K Inact, 7728K Wired, 3848K Cache, 3540K Buf, 888K Free Swap: 128M Total, 28M Used, 100M Free, 22% Inuse PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND 3203 jack 2 0 4536K 7064K select 1:41 2.48% 2.48% XF86_S3 3495 jack 18 0 672K 776K pause 0:00 0.00% 0.00% tcsh 3220 jack 18 0 620K 516K pause 0:03 0.00% 0.00% xearth 3211 jack 18 0 212K 460K pause 0:09 0.00% 0.00% asclock 165 root 18 0 432K 180K pause 0:14 0.00% 0.00% httpd 2414 root 18 0 692K 168K pause 0:00 0.00% 0.00% tcsh -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack O'Neill Finger jacko@diamond.xtalwind.net or jack@xtalwind.net http://www.xtalwind.net/~jacko/pubpgp.html #include <std_disclaimers.h> for my PGP key. PGP Key fingerprint = F6 C4 E6 D4 2F 15 A7 67 FD 09 E9 3C 5F CC EB CD --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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