Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2014 09:04:53 -0700 From: Alex <bartlett03@gmail.com> To: Grant Peel <gpeel@thenetnow.com>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Cc: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> Subject: Re: 9.3 Process Averages Message-ID: <8642314B-03B0-476B-823C-5C4B00786F70@gmail.com>
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> I have recently built FreeBSD 9.3 (i386) from the ground up (making our > next gen server build).=20 >=20 > Once complete I have been allowing it to run under no load, and have notic= ed > that the load averages Hovering around 0.40 - 0.50=20 I encountered a similar situation. Here is a Forum post discussing one resol= ution: https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/high-load-average-with-idle-state.38757/ And here is a snippet: I suspect you've encountered an issue that WAS* reported as: kern/173541. [See the 'Problem Reports' database.] Skipping to the useful stuff: Like Johan Broman, I was able to work around the problem using the following= # sysctl -w kern.eventtimer.timer=3DLAPIC He also points out: "You can list your clock sources using: # sysctl kern.eventtimer.choice" *the PR was not found when I checked today.=
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