Date: Sat, 16 Nov 1996 11:43:19 -0500 (EST) From: "Alex.Boisvert" <boia01@castor.GEL.USherb.CA> To: Mark Mayo <mark@quickweb.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: userland PPP giving weird load numbers Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.961116113938.28696B-100000@castor> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.94.961114143349.22811A-100000@vinyl.quickweb.com>
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> I've had this problem since 2.1x, and it appaears to still happen
> occasionally in 2.2-ALPHA:
>
> mark:{105}/home/mark % w
> 8:14AM up 46 mins, 3 users, load averages: 0.99, 0.97, 0.88
> USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE WHAT
> mark p1 :0.0 7:28AM 45 -tcsh (tcsh)
> mark p2 :0.0 7:28AM - w
> mark p3 :0.0 7:32AM 37 ppp
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> the ppp process causes the high load (which isn't real, BTW). Top shows it
> as not doing a thing. As soon as I kill ppp off, the load drops right back
> down.
>
I've noticed the same thing in 2.2-ALPHA since my installation. The load
goes between .80 to 1.1 when doing (moderate) FTP transmissions with
userland PPP.
I don't know if the load is real or not because I have not verified that
impact on performance it made.
Alex Boisvert
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