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Date:      Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:47:45 -0400
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Paul <bsdlist@cogeco.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-smp@freebsd.org, Steven Hartland <killing@multiplay.co.uk>, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Subject:   Re: System Cpu Between 50-70% and need to find out why
Message-ID:  <20070423154745.GA872@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070423153808.831BF56B@fep3.cogeco.net>
References:  <20070423010224.C16984@chrishome.localnet> <20070423004105.7984082E@fep7.cogeco.net> <00a601c78549$6b480fa0$b6db87d4@multiplay.co.uk> <20070423135619.D6FB4495@fep9.cogeco.net> <009c01c785b6$c8ac36e0$b6db87d4@multiplay.co.uk> <20070423145954.8244094A@fep1.cogeco.net> <00b301c785b9$0bc9b180$b6db87d4@multiplay.co.uk> <20070423152703.715922D1@fep2.cogeco.net> <20070423153334.GA530@xor.obsecurity.org> <20070423153808.831BF56B@fep3.cogeco.net>

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On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 11:38:22AM -0400, Paul wrote:
> Hi Kris,
> 
> Nothing is essentially working to answer your question on my diagnosis.
> 
> Everything is extremely slow and I can net get simple sendmail 
> services working at a reasonable rate of a few messages per second.
> 
> Any ideas?

Please post your kernel config.

Kris

P.S. Also please don't top-post, it destroys context

> 
> Thanks for your help
> 
> Paul
> 
> At 11:33 AM 23/04/2007, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> >On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 11:27:17AM -0400, Paul wrote:
> >> Hi Steve,
> >>
> >> When I shut off everything except apache with very low load and
> >> qpopper it is still maxed out.
> >
> >That does not look like very low load to me.  On the contrary, your
> >stats show that 30-40 running processes are being scheduled for
> >running on the 4 CPUs at any one time.  Under those circumstances you
> >should expect to see 100% CPU usage (anything less means your system
> >is not being completely used).  Can you please confirm what you are
> >using for your diagnosis that there is something wrong with the system
> >performance?
> 
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