Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 16:45:17 -0700 From: "Eric Parusel" <lists@globalrelay.net> To: <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: loadavg value was wrong Message-ID: <038c01c0eaf4$e92cc8c0$0600020a@frontend>
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If I'm posting this on the wrong list, tell me :) Twice today I've had this problem, and it's "weirding" me out... On two servers, both with a load average of normally 0.01, all of a sudden got load averages of 1.1...! I did a ps, top, and there were no processes that could account the high loadavg... I mounted a read-only floppy with "ps" and other tools on it, (you never know) and still didn't find anything that was using up any more than 5% cpu... The load average stayed up consistently only until I (I didn't try other load-generating things) uploaded a 20 meg file through SFTP. (this worked on both servers) Once I did that on both servers, the load average promptly dropped back down to 0.01...! Any explanations? If it happens again, is there something I should check/do? On these two servers I'm running FreeBSD 4.3-RC0 (Apr. 11th), and FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE (May 8th)... Eric Parusel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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