From owner-freebsd-current Mon Apr 7 11:22:29 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA00199 for current-outgoing; Mon, 7 Apr 1997 11:22:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from helmholtz.salk.edu (helmholtz.salk.edu [198.202.70.34]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA00193 for ; Mon, 7 Apr 1997 11:22:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pauling.salk.edu (pauling [198.202.70.108]) by helmholtz.salk.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA18167; Mon, 7 Apr 1997 11:22:11 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 7 Apr 1997 11:22:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Bartol To: Brian Tao cc: FREEBSD-CURRENT-L Subject: Re: XFree86 3.2 causes constant 1.0 load average? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, I am running FreeBSD-3.0-970209-SNAP and AfterStep-1.0pre6 also and I too occasionally see this same thing (this morning, in fact). I have not been able to track it down. Anyone have a clue what commands I should execute to try to shed more light on the situation? Tom On Sun, 6 Apr 1997, Brian Tao wrote: > Has anyone else noticed that XFree86 3.2 will in many cases (but > not always) cause a 2.2 or 3.0 system to report a load average of at > least 1.0? ps/top both indicate little or no CPU activity, but the > load average does not fall below 1.0 unless I kill off X. > > I'm running AfterStep 1.0pre6 as the window manager, but the X > application mix can vary (with or without Netscape running, xterm > windows with very little update activity, etc.) What would cause > FreeBSD to report a load average of 1+ when there is no system load? > > > last pid: 13859; load averages: 1.31, 1.42, 1.45 12:09:25 > 50 processes: 1 running, 49 sleeping > CPU states: 0.4% user, 0.0% nice, 1.2% system, 0.0% interrupt, 98.5% idle > Mem: 33M Active, 3592K Inact, 15M Wired, 8280K Cache, 7644K Buf, 2364K Free > Swap: 128M Total, 24M Used, 104M Free, 19% Inuse > > PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND > 8121 root 2 0 7788K 16368K select 831:43 1.53% 1.53% XF86_Mach64 > 12566 taob 2 0 564K 1484K select 0:18 0.99% 0.99% xterm > 13859 taob 28 0 324K 828K RUN 0:00 0.46% 0.38% top > 8182 taob 2 0 3140K 2112K select 0:21 0.11% 0.11% screen-3.7.1 > 13857 taob 2 0 600K 964K select 0:00 0.12% 0.11% vim > > -- > Brian Tao (BT300, taob@risc.org) > "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't" > >