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Date:      Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:38:22 -0400
From:      Paul <bsdlist@cogeco.ca>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        Steven Hartland <killing@multiplay.co.uk>, freebsd-smp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: System Cpu Between 50-70% and need to find out why
Message-ID:  <20070423153808.831BF56B@fep3.cogeco.net>
In-Reply-To: <20070423153334.GA530@xor.obsecurity.org>
References:  <20070422221426.74CF83D7@fep9.cogeco.net> <20070422224157.GA63390@xor.obsecurity.org> <20070423010224.C16984@chrishome.localnet> <20070423004105.7984082E@fep7.cogeco.net> <00a601c78549$6b480fa0$b6db87d4@multiplay.co.uk> <20070423135619.D6FB4495@fep9.cogeco.net> <009c01c785b6$c8ac36e0$b6db87d4@multiplay.co.uk> <20070423145954.8244094A@fep1.cogeco.net> <00b301c785b9$0bc9b180$b6db87d4@multiplay.co.uk> <20070423152703.715922D1@fep2.cogeco.net> <20070423153334.GA530@xor.obsecurity.org>

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Hi Kris,

Nothing is essentially working to answer your question on my diagnosis.

Everything is extremely slow and I can net get simple sendmail 
services working at a reasonable rate of a few messages per second.

Any ideas?

Thanks for your help

Paul

At 11:33 AM 23/04/2007, Kris Kennaway wrote:
>On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 11:27:17AM -0400, Paul wrote:
> > Hi Steve,
> >
> > When I shut off everything except apache with very low load and
> > qpopper it is still maxed out.
>
>That does not look like very low load to me.  On the contrary, your
>stats show that 30-40 running processes are being scheduled for
>running on the 4 CPUs at any one time.  Under those circumstances you
>should expect to see 100% CPU usage (anything less means your system
>is not being completely used).  Can you please confirm what you are
>using for your diagnosis that there is something wrong with the system
>performance?




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