Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 16:01:49 -0400 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@columbus.rr.com> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Odd Load average problem Message-ID: <39B7F42D.7BA8BDB9@columbus.rr.com> References: <200009071950.OAA01734@jaka.isd.state.in.us>
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"Kevin T. Likes" wrote:
>
> I'm running 4.1-S as of August 23, and ever since I updated to 4 I've been
> having
> a strange problem with load averages. The machine I'm on is a small
> workstation
> that is usually very quiet (mosly used as an x-terminal and e-mail
> destination).
> At least three times, I have had load averages suddenly jump to over 1 and stay
> there. This is very unusual for this machine. The only time I get load
> averages
> that high normally is a buildworld/installworld. top shows one running process
> (itself) and that the machine is 90+% idle. The only way to fix things seems
> to
> be to reboot the machine. The load average profile after the jump looks just
> like normal, except everything is +1 from there. I haven't been able to figure
> out how to reproduce the problem.
>
> Any suggestions on how I could troubleshoot this the next time it happens are
> extremely welcome.
I don't have a solution/suggestion. But I can say that I've seen this as
well. Only once or twice, and it seemed to have no negative effect on
the machine - it was just an unusually high load average (in my case,
all three of them were 1.00 on a machine that was doing hardly anything
- and they stayed at exactly 1.00 for some hours)
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