Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 01:04:00 +0200 (CEST) From: Christopher Arnold <chris@arnold.se> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: Paul <bsdlist@cogeco.ca>, freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: System Cpu Between 50-70% and need to find out why Message-ID: <20070423010224.C16984@chrishome.localnet> In-Reply-To: <20070422224157.GA63390@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20070422221426.74CF83D7@fep9.cogeco.net> <20070422224157.GA63390@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On Sun, 22 Apr 2007, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 06:14:38PM -0400, Paul wrote: >> My system is being killed by a system cpu always between 50-70% on >> Freebsd 6.2 with SMP enabled. Does anyone know of a quick tool to be >> able to tell me what is making up that 50-70% for the System Cup Usage. >> > Uh you had the right idea but forgot to paste the relevant bits ;-) > > top *is* the tool for working out what processes are using your CPU. > Although your high load average suggests that your system is just > heavily loaded and it is expected that it will be using 100% CPU. > Maybe Paul havn't found "S" in top? Enter "S" when runing top (to show system processes) and you might find out more about whats going on. /Chris
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