From owner-freebsd-sparc Sun Dec 22 8:26:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE63137B401 for ; Sun, 22 Dec 2002 08:26:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-64-169-104-228.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [64.169.104.228]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01E5443EDA for ; Sun, 22 Dec 2002 08:26:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from rot13.obsecurity.org (rot13.obsecurity.org [10.0.0.5]) by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A209D66BE3; Sun, 22 Dec 2002 08:26:36 -0800 (PST) Received: by rot13.obsecurity.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 9B3D71341; Sun, 22 Dec 2002 08:26:35 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 08:26:35 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Gavin Atkinson Cc: sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: High 'system' load Message-ID: <20021222162635.GA19974@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <20021222142731.U61142-100000@ury.york.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="n8g4imXOkfNTN/H1" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021222142731.U61142-100000@ury.york.ac.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --n8g4imXOkfNTN/H1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 02:39:51PM +0000, Gavin Atkinson wrote: >=20 > I have an Ultra 5, with a 270MHz processor. Does this look right (during a > buildworld)? Yes. > last pid: 14178; load averages: 1.96, 1.82, 1.82 up 0+01:37:27 14= :28:22 > PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND > 419 root 108 0 6848K 720K RUN 29:28 27.34% 27.34% top > 14177 root 113 0 7824K 5952K RUN 0:01 49.20% 4.69% cc1 > 14178 root -8 0 1424K 768K piperd 0:00 1.03% 0.10% as >=20 > Note the massively high 'system' load, and the fact top uses around 25-30% > of the CPU power. I am running a GENERIC kerenl built 12th Dec, but have > always seen high 'system' percentages. >=20 > Gavin 1.96 is not "massively high", it indicates that two processes are waiting to run (as expected in this situation). As for top, you'd expect it to measure its own CPU usage during the period in which it is sampling, since it is actually running during that time. It doesn't mean that it's using a constant 27% of your CPU. Kris --n8g4imXOkfNTN/H1 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+Bee5Wry0BWjoQKURAoBqAKCAvSLQYePWpdkN+m+h8SFRnppSeQCg/Yei CFb6mYqIWu8E3KvXlNCdV/8= =ZffK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --n8g4imXOkfNTN/H1-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message