From owner-freebsd-current Sun Apr 6 09:12:27 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA08889 for current-outgoing; Sun, 6 Apr 1997 09:12:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from alpha.risc.org (taob@trt-on23-04.netcom.ca [207.181.99.68]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA08884 for ; Sun, 6 Apr 1997 09:12:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (taob@localhost) by alpha.risc.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id MAA13865 for ; Sun, 6 Apr 1997 12:12:15 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 6 Apr 1997 12:12:15 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Tao To: FREEBSD-CURRENT-L Subject: XFree86 3.2 causes constant 1.0 load average? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Has anyone else noticed that XFree86 3.2 will in many cases (but not always) cause a 2.2 or 3.0 system to report a load average of at least 1.0? ps/top both indicate little or no CPU activity, but the load average does not fall below 1.0 unless I kill off X. I'm running AfterStep 1.0pre6 as the window manager, but the X application mix can vary (with or without Netscape running, xterm windows with very little update activity, etc.) What would cause FreeBSD to report a load average of 1+ when there is no system load? last pid: 13859; load averages: 1.31, 1.42, 1.45 12:09:25 50 processes: 1 running, 49 sleeping CPU states: 0.4% user, 0.0% nice, 1.2% system, 0.0% interrupt, 98.5% idle Mem: 33M Active, 3592K Inact, 15M Wired, 8280K Cache, 7644K Buf, 2364K Free Swap: 128M Total, 24M Used, 104M Free, 19% Inuse PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND 8121 root 2 0 7788K 16368K select 831:43 1.53% 1.53% XF86_Mach64 12566 taob 2 0 564K 1484K select 0:18 0.99% 0.99% xterm 13859 taob 28 0 324K 828K RUN 0:00 0.46% 0.38% top 8182 taob 2 0 3140K 2112K select 0:21 0.11% 0.11% screen-3.7.1 13857 taob 2 0 600K 964K select 0:00 0.12% 0.11% vim -- Brian Tao (BT300, taob@risc.org) "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"