From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 27 20:35:25 2003 Return-Path: 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 8271137B401 for ; Thu, 27 Mar 2003 20:35:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-150.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.150]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAD6A43FA3 for ; Thu, 27 Mar 2003 20:35:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from rot13.obsecurity.org (rot13.obsecurity.org [10.0.0.5]) by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B30566BE5; Thu, 27 Mar 2003 20:35:24 -0800 (PST) Received: by rot13.obsecurity.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4B68E1286; Thu, 27 Mar 2003 20:35:24 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 20:35:24 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Kris Kennaway Message-ID: <20030328043524.GA18639@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <20030324212040.GF2462@rot13.obsecurity.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="DocE+STaALJfprDB" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030324212040.GF2462@rot13.obsecurity.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-36.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,PGP_SIGNATURE_2, QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,REPLY_WITH_QUOTES, USER_AGENT_MUTT autolearn=ham version=2.50 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp) cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ACPI using too much CPU on idle system X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 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: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 04:35:26 -0000 --DocE+STaALJfprDB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 01:20:40PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > top -S shows the following on my machine: >=20 > CPU states: 0.8% user, 0.0% nice, 80.3% system, 12.9% interrupt, 6.1% = idle >=20 > PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND > 11 root -16 0 0K 12K RUN 563:23 32.23% 32.23% idle > 7 root -84 0 0K 12K actask 1:33 18.51% 18.51% acpi_ta= sk2 > 5 root -84 0 0K 12K actask 1:33 18.21% 18.21% acpi_ta= sk0 > 6 root -84 0 0K 12K actask 1:33 17.82% 17.82% acpi_ta= sk1 > 21 root -68 -187 0K 12K WAIT 0:55 4.98% 4.98% irq9: f= xp0 atapci0* > 17 root -24 -143 0K 12K WAIT 0:06 0.83% 0.83% swi6: a= cpitaskq > =20 > The machine is supposedly idle..no process, disk or network activity, > so I can't see any reason for all this kernel CPU activity. What is > going on? Is this some kind of software-emulated CPU step-down > because ACPI has decided my CPU is too fast? :) Hello, ACPI people? I haven't had any response to this yet. Kris --DocE+STaALJfprDB Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+g9EMWry0BWjoQKURAtJWAKDgLJuy1DVf5QutSfZUM6kCU9F82ACguokR xyveNHb21+4bVEVWH6hDhY0= =W7ON -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --DocE+STaALJfprDB--