From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 6 15:19:47 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FDDE16A4B3 for ; Mon, 6 Oct 2003 15:19:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pez.tiora.net (pez.tiora.net [38.112.129.152]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C66C43FDF for ; Mon, 6 Oct 2003 15:19:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from liam@tiora.net) Received: from zipper (pez [38.112.129.152]) by pez.tiora.net (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with SMTP id PAA15202 for ; Mon, 6 Oct 2003 15:19:42 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <024d01c38c58$03be7510$6400a8c0@zipper> From: "Liam Slusser" To: Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 15:20:12 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2720.3000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2727.1300 Subject: high load with 5.1-RELEASE X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2003 22:19:47 -0000 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