From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 19 16:04:55 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B3E69473 for ; Sun, 19 Oct 2014 16:04:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pd0-x22d.google.com (mail-pd0-x22d.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400e:c02::22d]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8735D69C for ; Sun, 19 Oct 2014 16:04:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pd0-f173.google.com with SMTP id g10so3489152pdj.32 for ; Sun, 19 Oct 2014 09:04:55 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=from:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:mime-version:subject :message-id:date:cc:to; bh=t8VY6ExR260T7ApYFEbH9j6sSeYhhKjWEpOJUhFF2Yg=; b=U6A4vbtI64n536Nb+P8HYlEu/FFxqtoedqIaszkP/l5CS1g5sAIdVNxXy/xfKhi1s+ 5pmqwmo7vbWFMOmgS5jTNSqUdhtLdClO1xqtvyT85Jk8dhow6/M6xxOWHL1kfNo3h4z/ qSpff3HyVS9JyPlAJAl64Vl8QR/1q68+7B8OgKVQ4ffho1VC3pB5FTOz2a1iknpgGFs7 WSOr+QTV0EAAvaT4xumhxGMag+xX7SyBqXAT8qCKk+/fzOAgctdJvO6PW2sJVou/ryCO e8PLfNayRY2/izyCIE/LoMzY4c1ZTGnJxfdEkM/AwC+Z3b/j1rKHoHG4CHNCO7inD/zP CTNQ== X-Received: by 10.70.34.236 with SMTP id c12mr3270309pdj.116.1413734695124; Sun, 19 Oct 2014 09:04:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.102] ([71.202.211.9]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id p1sm6872919pds.80.2014.10.19.09.04.54 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Sun, 19 Oct 2014 09:04:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Alex Mime-Version: 1.0 (1.0) Subject: Re: 9.3 Process Averages Message-Id: <8642314B-03B0-476B-823C-5C4B00786F70@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2014 09:04:53 -0700 To: Grant Peel , "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" X-Mailer: iPhone Mail (12A405) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.18-1 Cc: Ian Smith X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2014 16:04:55 -0000 > 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.=