Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 23:27:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com> To: "Forrest W. Christian" <forrestc@imach.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Funky load average Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10106202324420.19245-100000@misery.sdf.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0106210004220.15645-100000@workhorse.iMach.com>
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On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Forrest W. Christian wrote: > I'm asking this here because I don't really monitor many of the other > lists anymore (too much to read too little time). > > Has anyone seen anything like this: (from top) > > last pid: 59601; load averages: 2.57, 2.76, 2.52 > 105 processes: 1 running, 104 sleeping > CPU states: 22.5% user,0.0% nice,3.9% system,0.4% interrupt,73.3% idle > Mem: 53M Active, 150M Inact, 46M Wired, 12K Cache, 61M Buf, 250M Free > Swap: 512M Total, 512M Free > > It is just sitting like this. It seems kinda bizzare that we have a load > over 2-3 and I'd guess the idle is around 50% average. > > (The load is usally between 2-3, the idle is usually between 30-70%, and > there isn't any swap usage). > > iostat doesn't seem too out of whack except the "b" column (blocked > processes) is usually over 10. > > Is there any way to tell what they are waiting for? It doesn't look like > disk, as the disk light was on only about 50% of the time when I checked > it earlier (when this was occuring). > > Can anyone shed some light on this? This seems to fall into the "And why is this a problem?" category. The load average represents the average number of process in the run queue or short term wait. No evidence to suggest that isn't the correct value for your system. Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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