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Date:      Fri, 16 Feb 2007 21:11:00 +0100
From:      =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Nagy_L=E1szl=F3_Zsolt?= <nagylzs@freemail.hu>
To:        Sergey Zaharchenko <doublef-ctm@yandex.ru>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Invisible process killing the CPU
Message-ID:  <45D60FD4.5010107@freemail.hu>
In-Reply-To: <20070216192847.GA8358@shark.localdomain>
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>> [ systat -vmstat 1 ]
>>     
>>> Namei         Name-cache    Dir-cache               4960 prcfr
>>>       
>>                                                       ^^^^
>>
>> Looks like processes on this system are forking at a rate of 5000/sec.
>>     
>
> Ouch, that's pages freed by exiting processes, not process forks (gotta
> get some sleep). Anyway, if this is persistent, then some processes are
> exiting all the time, and they have to get created somehow, so the
> scenario is the same...
>   
Now the CPU is almost idle. :-) However, the prcfr value is still 
between 400 and 500. Is that normal?

  Laszlo




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