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Date:      Mon, 7 Apr 1997 11:22:10 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Tom Bartol <bartol@salk.edu>
To:        Brian Tao <taob@risc.org>
Cc:        FREEBSD-CURRENT-L <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: XFree86 3.2 causes constant 1.0 load average?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95.970407111936.336A-100000@pauling.salk.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970406120732.13146E-100000@alpha.risc.org>

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Hi,

I am running FreeBSD-3.0-970209-SNAP and AfterStep-1.0pre6 also and I
too occasionally see this same thing (this morning, in fact).  I have not
been able to track it down.  Anyone have a clue what commands I should
execute to try to shed more light on the situation?

Tom


On Sun, 6 Apr 1997, Brian Tao wrote:

>     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"
> 
> 




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