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Date:      Tue, 23 Apr 1996 22:33:54 +0300 (EET DST)
From:      Heikki Suonsivu <hsu@clinet.fi>
To:        FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject:   ports/1155: systat or top output confused
Message-ID:  <199604231933.WAA02994@katiska.clinet.fi>
Resent-Message-ID: <199604231940.MAA28868@freefall.freebsd.org>

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>Number:         1155
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       systat or top display disagreeing information
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Apr 23 12:40:01 PDT 1996
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Heikki Suonsivu
>Organization:
Clinet, Espoo, Finland
>Release:        FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386
>Environment:

-current from a couple of days back

>Description:

Top says:

load averages:   0.48,  0.42,  0.39                                                                                                                                                                    21:59:35
111 processes: 1 running, 109 sleeping, 1 zombie
Cpu states:  2.6% user,  0.0% nice, 10.1% system,  1.7% interrupt, 85.6% idle
Mem: 28M Active, 6032K Inact, 13M Wired, 6764K Cache, 4230K Buf, 104K Free
Swap: 287M Total, 287M Used, 100% Inuse  44Kin  

  PID USERNAME PRI NICE  SIZE   RES STATE    TIME   WCPU    CPU COMMAND
  494 news      -6  -10   14M 6588K biowai  96:52  4.62%  4.62% innd
  504 root      -6  -10  168K  212K biowai  12:26  2.89%  2.56% newsexpire
  499 news      -6   -2  156K  160K piperd   6:37  0.04%  0.04% overchan
 2161 root      28    0  416K  648K RUN      0:01  0.00%  0.00% top
20064 hsu       18    0  168K   88K pause    0:17  0.00%  0.00% tail
  506 root      18  -10  164K   60K pause    2:53  0.00%  0.00% newsexpire
  145 root      18    0  244K   56K pause    0:04  0.00%  0.00% <cron>
  152 root      18    0  204K   52K pause    0:02  0.00%  0.00% lpd
  516 root      18    0  164K   36K pause    0:01  0.00%  0.00% <getty>
 6629 hsu       18    0  728K    4K pause    0:01  0.00%  0.00% <tcsh>
 1169 root      18    0  656K    4K pause    0:00  0.00%  0.00% <tcsh>
 2065 root      18    0  652K    4K pause    0:00  0.00%  0.00% <tcsh>
 2059 root      18    0  172K    4K pause    0:00  0.00%  0.00% <sleep>

and systat says:

                    /0   /1   /2   /3   /4   /5   /6   /7   /8   /9   /10
     Load Average   ||

                    /0   /10  /20  /30  /40  /50  /60  /70  /80  /90  /100
             <idle> XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX  
root           perl XXXXXXX  
news           innd XXX   
root     newsexpire XX

Only two perls were present:

USER       PID %CPU %MEM   VSZ  RSS  TT  STAT STARTED       TIME COMMAND
root      5839 14.8  0.0     0    0  ??  Z    -          0:00.00  (perl)
root       221  0.0  0.0  1492    0  ??  IW   Mon12PM    0:00.04 /usr/local/bin/perl /usr/local/ripe-db/bin/whoisd

whoisd isn't doing anything, but there is a zombie.

I watched it for several minutes, but the mysterious perl was sitting
there all the time.  Could zombies confuse systat somehow? 

>How-To-Repeat:

	Not sure.  I do not see this on other machines but they do not have
	zombies around and they are less loaded.

>Fix:
	


>Audit-Trail:
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