From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Mar 1 13:38:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA07549 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sun, 1 Mar 1998 13:38:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from arh0300.urh.uiuc.edu (arh0300.urh.uiuc.edu [130.126.72.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA07516 for ; Sun, 1 Mar 1998 13:38:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dannyman@arh0300.urh.uiuc.edu) Received: (from dannyman@localhost) by arh0300.urh.uiuc.edu (8.8.8/8.8.5) id PAA28098; Sun, 1 Mar 1998 15:38:50 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <19980301153850.12942@urh.uiuc.edu> Date: Sun, 1 Mar 1998 15:38:50 -0600 From: dannyman To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: high load, idle CPU Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i X-Loop: djhoward@uiuc.edu X-URL: http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/djhoward/ Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG my system has just jumped in to sustained high load, and i don't know why. this is a build of -current i think within the past week. would this be a bug in the system somewhere, or some naturally weird phenomenon? (i don't know whether to send-pr or email hackers, but the traffic's been a bit light so ...) top -b; last pid: 27341; load averages: 3.16, 2.50, 1.56 15:35:37 86 processes: 3 running, 83 sleeping Mem: 6368K Active, 48M Inact, 16M Wired, 6908K Cache, 8323K Buf, 712K Free Swap: 100M Total, 87M Used, 13M Free, 87% Inuse PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND 243 root 2 0 5256K 3268K select 53:30 2.17% 2.17% XF86_S3 261 dannyman 2 0 296K 356K select 13:04 0.08% 0.08% xdaliclock 260 dannyman 10 0 272K 364K nanslp 7:36 0.04% 0.04% xosview 17294 dannyman 2 0 516K 1280K select 0:00 0.04% 0.04% xterm 263 dannyman 10 0 728K 296K nanslp 14:57 0.00% 0.00% xearth 740 dannyman 10 0 75012K 844K wait 1:09 0.00% 0.00% perl5.00404 270 dannyman 2 0 17508K 816K select 0:56 0.00% 0.00% pppload 194 root 2 0 248K 272K select 0:37 0.00% 0.00% atalkd 174 root 10 0 500K 264K nanslp 0:26 0.00% 0.00% httpd 216 root 2 0 476K 388K select 0:23 0.00% 0.00% nmbd 27464 dannyman 10 0 232K 296K nanslp 0:22 0.00% 0.00% tail 17212 dannyman 2 0 296K 608K select 0:18 0.00% 0.00% xdaliclock 23232 dannyman 2 0 13044K 2420K select 0:15 0.00% 0.00% communicator-4 22329 dannyman 2 0 404K 288K select 0:14 0.00% 0.00% ssh 17214 dannyman 10 0 584K 508K nanslp 0:11 0.00% 0.00% xearth 256 dannyman 2 0 396K 300K select 0:08 0.00% 0.00% afterstep 268 dannyman 2 0 284K 408K select 0:07 0.00% 0.00% xload 4046 dannyman 2 0 764K 344K select 0:07 0.00% 0.00% mutt okay, and if dmesg is something that might be valuable; Copyright (c) 1992-1998 FreeBSD Inc. 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FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT #2: Wed Feb 25 00:50:33 CST 1998 root@arh0300.urh.uiuc.edu:/newhome/src/sys/compile/STUMPY Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz cost 2524 ns Timecounter "TSC" frequency 99952270 Hz cost 356 ns CPU: AMD-K5(tm) Processor (99.95-MHz 586-class CPU) Origin = "AuthenticAMD" Id = 0x511 Stepping=1 Features=0x21bf real memory = 83886080 (81920K bytes) avail memory = 79253504 (77396K bytes) Probing for devices on PCI bus 0: chip0: rev 0x02 on pci0.0.0 chip1: rev 0x01 on pci0.7.0 ide_pci0: rev 0x00 on pci0.7.1 vga0: rev 0x54 int a irq 11 on pci0.17.0 ed1: rev 0x00 int a irq 10 on pci0.20.0 ed1: address 00:c0:0c:b0:ad:c6, type NE2000 (16 bit) Probing for devices on the ISA bus: sc0 at 0x60-0x6f irq 1 on motherboard sc0: VGA color <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x0> ed0 not found at 0x280 sio0 at 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 on isa sio0: type 16550A sio1 at 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa sio1: type 16550A lpt1 at 0x378-0x37f on isa fdc0 at 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold fd0: 1.44MB 3.5in wdc0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14 on isa wdc0: unit 0 (wd0): wd0: 1222MB (2503872 sectors), 2484 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S wdc1 at 0x170-0x177 irq 15 on isa wdc1: unit 0 (wd2): wd2: 6149MB (12594960 sectors), 13328 cyls, 15 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S wdc1: unit 1 (atapi): , removable, dma, iordy wcd0: 1377Kb/sec, 256Kb cache, audio play, 256 volume levels, ejectable tray wcd0: 120mm audio disc loaded, unlocked, lock protected npx0 flags 0x1 on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface sb0 at 0x220 irq 5 drq 1 on isa snd0: sbxvi0 at ? drq 5 on isa snd0: sbmidi0 at 0x330 on isa snd0: opl0 at 0x388 on isa snd0: pid 848 (pppload), uid 1000: exited on signal 6 (core dumped) pid 15218 (pppload), uid 1000: exited on signal 6 (core dumped) pid 27498 (pppload), uid 1000: exited on signal 6 (core dumped) swap_pager: suggest more swap space: 158 MB pid 17228 (pppload), uid 1000: exited on signal 6 (core dumped) -- //Dan -=- This message brought to you by djhoward@uiuc.edu -=- \\/yori -=- Information - http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/djhoward/ -=- aiokomete -=- Our Honored Symbol deserves an Honorable Retirement To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message