From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 22 17:14:20 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E867916A417 for ; Wed, 22 Aug 2007 17:14:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mail-out3.apple.com (mail-out3.apple.com [17.254.13.22]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE26213C4DD for ; Wed, 22 Aug 2007 17:14:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from relay11.apple.com (relay11.apple.com [17.128.113.48]) by mail-out3.apple.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66524F2A7DC; Wed, 22 Aug 2007 10:14:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay11.apple.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by relay11.apple.com (Symantec Mail Security) with ESMTP id 4A61C28C96; Wed, 22 Aug 2007 10:14:20 -0700 (PDT) X-AuditID: 11807130-a79a2bb000006012-56-46cc6eeb72d5 Received: from [17.214.13.96] (cswiger1.apple.com [17.214.13.96]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by relay11.apple.com (Symantec Mail Security) with ESMTP id 762BF28747; Wed, 22 Aug 2007 10:14:19 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <64b284310708220234n4a01cf47r3767079b6c50eb55@mail.gmail.com> References: <64b284310708220234n4a01cf47r3767079b6c50eb55@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Chuck Swiger Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 10:14:18 -0700 To: Nguyen Tam Chinh X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== Cc: FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: It's top shows wrong load percent? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 17:14:21 -0000 On Aug 22, 2007, at 2:34 AM, Nguyen Tam Chinh wrote: > Please advice how to debug this overload problem. > Thank you very much! > > -------------------------- > %top > last pid: 12901; load averages: 8.68, 8.65, 8.65 up 1 > +20:44:06 04:15:12 > 1438 processes:9 running, 1429 sleeping Look at the number of processes you've got-- most likely you've got some scripts leaving zombie processes around, or one of the server programs you are running isn't cleaning up after it's children properly. Do a "ps aux" and look for excessive numbers of processes.... -- -Chuck