Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 08:42:28 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Gavin Atkinson <gavin@ury.york.ac.uk> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: High 'system' load Message-ID: <20021222164228.GA20101@rot13.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20021222163055.S61142-100000@ury.york.ac.uk> References: <20021222142731.U61142-100000@ury.york.ac.uk> <20021222162635.GA19974@rot13.obsecurity.org> <20021222163055.S61142-100000@ury.york.ac.uk>
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--X1bOJ3K7DJ5YkBrT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 04:35:11PM +0000, Gavin Atkinson wrote: > On Sun, 22 Dec 2002, Kris Kennaway wrote: >=20 > > 1.96 is not "massively high", it indicates that two processes are > > waiting to run (as expected in this situation). >=20 > 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': Sorry, it wasn't clear to me to which you were referring. > CPU states: 22.0% user, 0.0% nice, 55.1% system, 0.9% interrupt, 22.0% = idle >=20 > This does seem excessively high to me. Again, it's only one sampling period (probably 1 second), but if you have debugging options like WITNESS enabled you will see higher system CPU usage. Kris --X1bOJ3K7DJ5YkBrT Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+BetwWry0BWjoQKURAnLTAJ9MGBK3hi6Na/MAp/4lTBP9dLV/ugCgl2oo EYegWpu1tag5nxoVCiJx02k= =AA5n -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --X1bOJ3K7DJ5YkBrT-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message
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