From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Sep 7 13:41:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from gaia.nimnet.asn.au (nimbin.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.45.143]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A79F37B422 for ; Thu, 7 Sep 2000 13:41:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (smithi@localhost) by gaia.nimnet.asn.au (8.8.8/8.8.8R1.0) with SMTP id GAA22087; Fri, 8 Sep 2000 06:41:07 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from smithi@nimnet.asn.au) Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2000 06:41:06 +1000 (EST) From: Ian Smith To: Bill Moran Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Odd Load average problem In-Reply-To: <39B7F42D.7BA8BDB9@columbus.rr.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Bill Moran wrote: > "Kevin T. Likes" wrote: [..] > > (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. > > I don't have a solution/suggestion. But I can say that I've seen this as > well. Only once or twice, and it seemed to have no negative effect on > the machine - it was just an unusually high load average (in my case, > all three of them were 1.00 on a machine that was doing hardly anything > - and they stayed at exactly 1.00 for some hours) For what it's worth, I've noticed this occasionally over a couple of years on a 2.2.6 box; same, seems like 1.00 has been added to the load average, lasts for hours, goes away. Thought it'd be fixed ages ago :) Cheers, Ian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message