From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 24 09:57:22 2009 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 E15E6106566C for ; Sun, 24 May 2009 09:57:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Received: from wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl [IPv6:2001:4070:101:2::1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BB178FC1D for ; Sun, 24 May 2009 09:57:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Received: from wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n4O9vAcn030669; Sun, 24 May 2009 11:57:10 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Received: from localhost (wojtek@localhost) by wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) with ESMTP id n4O9v8D4030666; Sun, 24 May 2009 11:57:10 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 11:57:08 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar To: Yuri In-Reply-To: <4A18BEC8.5060506@rawbw.com> Message-ID: References: <4A18BEC8.5060506@rawbw.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How can this 'top' command output make sense? Load over 7 and total CPU use ~5% 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: Sun, 24 May 2009 09:57:23 -0000 > Look below: load over 7 and no processes take much CPU. load average is NOT sum of CPU loads. for example program reading constantly from HDD and using no CPU will add 1 to load average. other things like net I/O etc. are calculated too. i can't explain you exactly how because i don't know precisely. but load average is total load not just CPU load > > Yuri > > 7.2-PRERELEASE, 32-bit on i7-920. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > last pid: 93192; load averages: 7.68, 6.27, 4.61 > up 2+03:11:29 20:25:24 > 204 processes: 9 running, 193 sleeping, 1 stopped, 1 zombie > CPU: 5.3% user, 0.0% nice, 0.0% system, 0.0% interrupt, 94.7% idle > Mem: 867M Active, 1684M Inact, 279M Wired, 65M Cache, 112M Buf, 92M Free > Swap: 16G Total, 142M Used, 16G Free > > PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE C TIME WCPU COMMAND > 60032 yuri 1 46 0 285M 183M select 0 41:15 0.59% Xorg > 60400 yuri 1 4 0 12576K 9144K kqread 4 29:44 0.00% > wineserver > 92982 yuri 1 44 0 53012K 16800K CPU3 3 18:50 0.00% kdeinit4 > 92986 yuri 1 44 0 53012K 16800K CPU7 7 18:48 0.00% kdeinit4 > 92988 yuri 1 107 0 53012K 16840K CPU6 6 17:22 0.00% kdeinit4 > 60104 yuri 1 44 0 132M 45860K select 0 16:58 0.00% kwin > 92984 yuri 1 117 0 53012K 16800K RUN 5 14:56 0.00% kdeinit4 > 60096 yuri 1 44 0 89732K 30040K select 4 10:10 0.00% kded4 > 93141 yuri 1 53 0 53012K 16800K CPU5 5 3:52 0.00% kdeinit4 > 93139 yuri 1 44 0 53012K 16800K CPU1 1 3:30 0.00% kdeinit4 > 60174 yuri 1 44 0 3168K 1400K select 0 1:28 0.00% > ksysguardd > 450 root 1 4 0 3128K 800K select 4 0:44 0.00% dhclient > 1131 messagebus 1 4 0 3344K 1384K select 4 0:40 0.00% > dbus-daemon > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >