Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2000 06:41:06 +1000 (EST) From: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> To: Bill Moran <wmoran@columbus.rr.com> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Odd Load average problem Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000908063510.20849B-100000@gaia.nimnet.asn.au> In-Reply-To: <39B7F42D.7BA8BDB9@columbus.rr.com>
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On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Bill Moran wrote: > "Kevin T. Likes" wrote: [..] > > (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) For what it's worth, I've noticed this occasionally over a couple of years on a 2.2.6 box; same, seems like 1.00 has been added to the load average, lasts for hours, goes away. Thought it'd be fixed ages ago :) Cheers, Ian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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