From owner-freebsd-current Mon Nov 5 17:55:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from fw.mccons.net (adsl-65-64-105-41.dsl.kscymo.swbell.net [65.64.105.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16FF737B417 for ; Mon, 5 Nov 2001 17:55:53 -0800 (PST) Received: (from root@localhost) by fw.mccons.net (8.11.3/8.11.4) id fA61tpo74371 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Mon, 5 Nov 2001 19:55:51 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from root@mccons.net) Received: from localhost (root@localhost) by fw.mccons.net (8.11.3/8.11.4av) with ESMTP id fA61thZ74336 for ; Mon, 5 Nov 2001 19:55:45 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from root@mccons.net) Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 19:55:43 -0600 (CST) From: Wm Brian McCane To: Subject: Strange Behaviour Message-ID: <20011105194012.B68941-100000@fw.mccons.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have a machine that is running current (kinda old Sep 13). I am working on upgrading it to more current, to see if it fixes my problem, but in the interim, I am seeing the following: 1) P3-866, 768M, 3xUDMA100 IDE disks (various sizes), 2 NICs (trusted/DMZ) 2) Current 5.0 dated 2001-09-13 3) PostgreSQL 7.1.3 I recently converted my most profitable website to run using PostgreSQL instead of MySQL because my other websites (w/psql) had better performance characteristics. After I got it converted, everything seemed MUCH FASTER. Great! Let's go get a soda (i don't like beer ;). Watched software for 2 days, off and on, no problems. This morning, my machine had an average load over 25. But the odd thing is, I am not having any performance problems, either with my websites or a SSH connection. At one point top said I had 47 programs RUNNING, 62 sleeping, 1 mutex. Even stranger, this machine is running Seti@Home, niced to 19, and it is still getting CPU time. Anyway, with load levels that high my pager has gone through a set of batteries since this morning. I can understand if I had a runaway app how the load could get so high, but I don't understand why the system would "feel" normal when I use it. Any ideas? - brian +-----------------------------------+------------------------------------------+ He rides a cycle of mighty days, and \ Wm Brian and Lori McCane represents the last great schizm among\ McCane Consulting the gods. Evil though he obviously is, \ root@bmccane.maxbaud.net he is a mighty figure, this father of \ http://bmccane.maxbaud.net/ my spirit, and I respect him as the sons \ http://www.sellit-here.com/ of old did the fathers of their bodies. \ http://recall.maxbaud.net/ Roger Zelazny - "Lord of Light" \ http://www.maxbaud.net/ +-------------------------------------------+----------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message