Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 16:54:45 -0400 From: Vivek Khera <khera@kcilink.com> To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: can't get system stats: "alternate system clock has died" Message-ID: <15760.53525.213894.217966@onceler.kciLink.com>
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I'm running a 4.6-RELEASE-p1 system, and it seems to be a bit slow today. So I run top, and this is what I get after a few seconds: last pid: 76592; load averages: 0.03, 0.08, 0.08 up 82+09:21:47 16:25:21 107 processes: 1 running, 106 sleeping CPU states: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.0% system, 0.0% interrupt, 0.0% idle Mem: 300M Active, 88M Inact, 61M Wired, 15M Cache, 61M Buf, 36M Free Swap: 1024M Total, 3216K Used, 1021M Free PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE C TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND 9357 dnscache 2 0 2256K 1520K poll 0 91:29 0.00% 0.00% dnscache 9686 dnslog -6 0 900K 224K piperd 0 52:32 0.00% 0.00% multilog .. and a bunch more processes .. notice the CPU states are all 0.0%. Ok, I think, maybe top is just busted. systat -vmstat should help me... it sits there for a few seconds with the empty template display, then says The alternate system clock has died! Reverting to ``pigs'' display. WTF does that mean? The pigs display shows nothing other than its empty template screen as well. Curiously, systat -iostat shows me some user and idle CPU percentages until the first refresh, after which it is blank other than disk activity. Similar activity from the vmstat program... The only log message I see from the kernel for the last few days is this one: Sep 19 13:39:23 w01 /kernel: pullup failed but that appears to be IPFW related. Any hints as to where to look? I'm loathe to reboot this machine until at least Sunday early AM during off-hours. Thanks for any advice. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Vivek Khera, Ph.D. Khera Communications, Inc. Internet: khera@kciLink.com Rockville, MD +1-240-453-8497 AIM: vivekkhera Y!: vivek_khera http://www.khera.org/~vivek/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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