Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 14:43:13 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: mvh@ix.netcom.com Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: %idle stuck at 33%? Message-ID: <20050417214313.GB99519@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20050417213404.810E2173BA@bsd.mvh> References: <d3ujfu$l9s$1@FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw> <20050417213404.810E2173BA@bsd.mvh>
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--ADZbWkCsHQ7r3kzd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 02:34:04PM -0700, mvh@ix.netcom.com wrote: > I should be more clear - the idle % never goes below 33.3%, spends > most of its time at 33.3%, and the disks are not even remotely > saturated. They are 15K SCSI drives and the above is true even when > there is no apparent disk activity. Seems like the idle % is being > calculated incorrectly. I am just trying to found out if anyone else > seems anything simlar before I file a PR... This kind of thing can happen if your world is out of sync with your kernel. Kris P.S. Please don't top-post. > In article <d3ujfu$l9s$1@FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw> you wrote: > >=20 > > --V0207lvV8h4k8FAm > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=3Dus-ascii > > Content-Disposition: inline > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > >=20 > > On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 02:04:28PM -0700, Mike Harding wrote: > >>=3D20 > >> On 5.4-RC3, a Dell 2650 with two processors, and hyperthreading turned > >> off, a 'make -j4 buildword' never shows idle % less than 33.3, either > >> in top or systat. Anybody else see this, or know why it happens? > >=20 > > Your disks are too slow to keep up? > >=20 > > Kris --ADZbWkCsHQ7r3kzd Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCYthxWry0BWjoQKURAoL1AJ9L98kgOkmC01l/e+btkIhzZdtBjQCg/fgu j0ooeuFqpgjYLfaMlv+wFfI= =hiVk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ADZbWkCsHQ7r3kzd--
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