Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 15:20:12 -0700 From: "Liam Slusser" <liam@tiora.net> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: high load with 5.1-RELEASE Message-ID: <024d01c38c58$03be7510$6400a8c0@zipper>
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One of my freebsd boxes has a huge load but it doenst show any cpu usage, it always shows ~70% idle. Its a dual cpu intel xeon 2.4ghz with hyberthreading (freebsd shows 4cpus) uname -a FreeBSD gflux.tiora.net 5.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE #2: Thu Sep 18 16:20:28 PDT 2003 root@gflux.tiora.net:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/gflux i386 last pid: 2456; load averages: 9.66, 12.08, 14.41 up 17+16:43:08 15:04:30 217 processes: 11 running, 205 sleeping, 1 zombie CPU states: 9.5% user, 4.3% nice, 15.1% system, 0.8% interrupt, 70.3% idle Mem: 333M Active, 289M Inact, 224M Wired, 46M Cache, 111M Buf, 93M Free Swap: 512M Total, 59M Used, 453M Free, 11% Inuse Im aware the server is highly busy, and its always very fast. I just dont understand why it always says there is always 70% idle cpu time? iostat says the same thing. I can do a make -j 12 world, and it still shows 70% idle cpu time. Any thoughts? thanks, liam
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