From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Sep 7 12:50:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from jaka.isd.state.in.us (jaka.isd.state.in.us [199.8.63.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 948A837B50C for ; Thu, 7 Sep 2000 12:50:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jaka.isd.state.in.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jaka.isd.state.in.us (8.9.3/8.9.0) with ESMTP id OAA01734 for ; Thu, 7 Sep 2000 14:50:01 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200009071950.OAA01734@jaka.isd.state.in.us> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Odd Load average problem Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 14:50:01 -0500 From: "Kevin T. Likes" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm running 4.1-S as of August 23, and ever since I updated to 4 I've been having a strange problem with load averages. The machine I'm on is a small workstation that is usually very quiet (mosly used as an x-terminal and e-mail destination). At least three times, I have had load averages suddenly jump to over 1 and stay there. This is very unusual for this machine. The only time I get load averages that high normally is a buildworld/installworld. top shows one running process (itself) and that the machine is 90+% idle. The only way to fix things seems to be to reboot the machine. The load average profile after the jump looks just like normal, except everything is +1 from there. I haven't been able to figure out how to reproduce the problem. Any suggestions on how I could troubleshoot this the next time it happens are extremely welcome. --ktl p.s. Here's dmesg output: Copyright (c) 1992-2000 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE #0: Thu Aug 24 09:34:57 EST 2000 root@jaka.isd.state.in.us:/usr2/obj/usr/src/sys/JAKA Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz Timecounter "TSC" frequency 132955562 Hz CPU: Pentium/P54C (132.96-MHz 586-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x52c Stepping = 12 Features=0x1bf real memory = 83886080 (81920K bytes) avail memory = 78524416 (76684K bytes) Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc030b000. Intel Pentium detected, installing workaround for F00F bug npx0: on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface pcib0: on motherboard pci0: on pcib0 isab0: at device 7.0 on pci0 isa0: on isab0 atapci0: port 0xffa0-0xffaf at device 7.1 on pci0 ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0 ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0 pci0: at 8.0 de0: port 0xfc80-0xfcff mem 0xfffbfc00-0xfffbfc7f irq 11 at device 17.0 on pci0 de0: SMC 21041 [10Mb/s] pass 1.1 de0: address 00:00:c0:e5:6f:e6 fdc0: at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0 fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0 sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0 sio0: type 16550A sio1 at port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 flags 0x10 on isa0 sio1: type 16550A atkbdc0: at port 0x60,0x64 on isa0 atkbd0: irq 1 on atkbdc0 psm0: irq 12 on atkbdc0 psm0: model Generic PS/2 mouse, device ID 0 vga0: at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0 sc0: on isa0 sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x200> sbc0: at port 0x220-0x22f,0x330-0x331,0x388-0x38b irq 5 drq 1,5 on isa0 sbc0: setting card to irq 5, drq 1, 5 pcm0: on sbc0 unknown0: at port 0x100 on isa0 unknown1: at port 0x108 on isa0 unknown2: at port 0x200-0x207 on isa0 de0: enabling 10baseT port ad0: 1549MB [3148/16/63] at ata0-master using WDMA2 ad1: 504MB [1024/16/63] at ata0-slave using WDMA2 acd0: CDROM at ata1-master using PIO3 Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a pid 4673 (conftest), uid 106: exited on signal 11 (core dumped) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message