From owner-freebsd-current Thu Oct 17 8:15: 8 2002 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 DA67B37B401 for ; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 08:15:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from blackhelicopters.org (geburah.blackhelicopters.org [209.69.178.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FC7243E7B for ; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 08:15:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org) Received: from blackhelicopters.org (mwlucas@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by blackhelicopters.org (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g9HFF5J6048166; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 11:15:05 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org) Received: (from mwlucas@localhost) by blackhelicopters.org (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g9HFF57l048165; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 11:15:05 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 11:15:05 -0400 From: Michael Lucas To: Kenneth Culver Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: wierd cpu usage numbers Message-ID: <20021017111505.A48126@blackhelicopters.org> References: <20021017105950.T3698-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20021017105950.T3698-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org>; from culverk@yumyumyum.org on Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 11:03:04AM -0400 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 On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 11:03:04AM -0400, Kenneth Culver wrote: > Hi, > I was just compiling kde3 on my home pc, and I noticed some > interesting behavior. It seems that whenever there's ANY real heavy disk > activity, the "system" cpu usage % number (in top and in systat -vm) > skyrockets from 0.8% to around 50-70%. I was wondering which of the recent > changes could have caused this... also in systat, the increase of the > system % number seems to correspond with zfod, cow, and prcfr numbers > jumping. Any ideas? Please see the big friendly message in all capital letters in /usr/src/UPDATING: NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT 5.0-CURRENT IS SLOW: .... This is a result of what's explained there. ==ml -- Michael Lucas mwlucas@FreeBSD.org, mwlucas@BlackHelicopters.org http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons Absolute BSD: http://www.AbsoluteBSD.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message