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Date:      Sun, 28 Oct 2007 14:38:36 +0100
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Gunther Mayer <gunther.mayer@googlemail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: CPU usage 100% but no process hogging CPU
Message-ID:  <472490DC.1010506@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <47248E9E.8030203@googlemail.com>
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Gunther Mayer wrote:
> Kris Kennaway wrote:
>> Gunther Mayer wrote:
>>
>>> I don't see why my javavm, apache, postgres and/or radiusd would 
>>> spawn such short lived processes. Come to think of it, I know radius 
>>> might be doing just that, but how the heck would I go about finding 
>>> out? top -H brings me no closer...
>>
>> Either increase the sample resolution or rule out other programs as 
>> the cause.
> Increasing sample resolution just increases the CPU usage of top itself 
> but gives no more information about the real culprits :-(
> 
> But I managed to solve my problem by reverting to and upgrading my SMP 
> kernel. The system's back now with 15 minute load averages around 0.05 
> which is where it should be.

Oh, you were going by the load average?  That is not a measure of system 
performance, it only shows how many processes are running.

Anyway, glad you resolved it to your satisfaction.

Kris



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