From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 14 19:18:54 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA07210 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 19:18:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from rosemary.fsl.noaa.gov (rosemary.fsl.noaa.gov [137.75.8.41]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA07175; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 19:18:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from sage.fsl.noaa.gov (sage.fsl.noaa.gov [137.75.253.42]) by rosemary.fsl.noaa.gov (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id UAA25318; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 20:17:25 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <328BE0C4.41C67EA6@fsl.noaa.gov> Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 20:17:24 -0700 From: Sean Kelly Organization: NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Mayo CC: hackers@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: userland PPP giving weird load numbers References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Mark Mayo wrote: > the ppp process causes the high load (which isn't real, BTW). Top shows it > as not doing a thing. As soon as I kill ppp off, the load drops right back > down. I see this too all the time, from 2.0.5 all the way to 2.1.5. While /usr/sbin/ppp is running, the load average hangs around 1.0. Sometimes, it'll drop. It's odd ... it's usually when ppp is idle that it hangs around 1.0. -- Sean Kelly NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory Boulder Colorado USA