From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 10 11:00:33 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE80216A41F for ; Wed, 10 Aug 2005 11:00:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk) Received: from mail-gw0.york.ac.uk (mail-gw0.york.ac.uk [144.32.128.245]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6194443D53 for ; Wed, 10 Aug 2005 11:00:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk) Received: from buffy.york.ac.uk (buffy-128.york.ac.uk [144.32.128.160]) by mail-gw0.york.ac.uk (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j7AB0LIc005278; Wed, 10 Aug 2005 12:00:21 +0100 (BST) Received: from buffy.york.ac.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by buffy.york.ac.uk (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7AB0Lwe004232; Wed, 10 Aug 2005 12:00:21 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk) Received: (from ga9@localhost) by buffy.york.ac.uk (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id j7AB0L8r004231; Wed, 10 Aug 2005 12:00:21 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk) X-Authentication-Warning: buffy.york.ac.uk: ga9 set sender to gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk using -f From: Gavin Atkinson To: "Robert C. Noland III" In-Reply-To: <1123630551.994.9.camel@bbeng-laptop.acs.internap.com> References: <1123630551.994.9.camel@bbeng-laptop.acs.internap.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 12:00:20 +0100 Message-Id: <1123671620.3854.8.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port X-York-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-York-MailScanner-From: gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: system resources in -current X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 11:00:33 -0000 On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 19:35 -0400, Robert C. Noland III wrote: > Since stepping up to 6-current just prior to releng_6 and now on > 7-current, the %cpu consumed by system as reported by systat -vmstat and > top seems incredibly high. I have all of the debugging options turned > off in the kernel, as well as: > > it rarely ever goes below 10%, and frequently is 25 - 50% and is > generally significantly higher than user % > > #top -S > > last pid: 23808; load averages: 0.55, 0.55, 0.54 up 0+01:46:06 19:34:24 > 138 processes: 3 running, 111 sleeping, 24 waiting > CPU states: 3.1% user, 0.0% nice, 16.0% system, 0.8% interrupt, 80.1% idle I am also seeing this one one of my systems (a laptop) running 6. For me, the effect only starts after it has been running for a while, usually between 8 and 24 hours. Do you also see this, or is it continuous for you? The only cure I have found is to reboot the machine. Gavin