Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 16:35:11 +0000 (GMT) From: Gavin Atkinson <gavin@ury.york.ac.uk> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: High 'system' load Message-ID: <20021222163055.S61142-100000@ury.york.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20021222162635.GA19974@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <20021222142731.U61142-100000@ury.york.ac.uk> <20021222162635.GA19974@rot13.obsecurity.org>
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On Sun, 22 Dec 2002, Kris Kennaway wrote: > 1.96 is not "massively high", it indicates that two processes are > waiting to run (as expected in this situation). You actually snipped the line I was querying. I was not talking about the load averages, but the actual percentage of load which is credited to 'system': CPU states: 22.0% user, 0.0% nice, 55.1% system, 0.9% interrupt, 22.0% idle This does seem excessively high to me. > As for top, you'd expect it to measure its own CPU usage during the > period in which it is sampling, since it is actually running during that > time. It doesn't mean that it's using a constant 27% of your CPU. I understand that, but even on my P75 -current pentium system, top only accounts for 5% cpu load while running the same test. Gavin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message
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