Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2011 11:20:29 -0500 From: Jason Hellenthal <jhell@DataIX.net> To: Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: swi4: clock taking 40% cpu?!? Message-ID: <20111217162029.GA3875@DataIX.net> In-Reply-To: <4EEA5DD0.1040009@FreeBSD.org> References: <4EEA5DD0.1040009@FreeBSD.org>
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On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 12:51:28PM -0800, Doug Barton wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> Web server under heavy'ish load (7 on a 2 cpu system) running
> 8.2-RELEASE-p4 i386 I'm seeing this:
>
> PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE C TIME WCPU COMMAND
> 12 root -32 - 0K 112K WAIT 0 129:01 39.99% {swi4: clock}
>
> Any ideas why the clock should be taking so much cpu? HZ=100 if that
> makes a difference ...
>
>
Without NTPd running test the following.
apply "/usr/bin/time -ph sleep %1" 300 600 900
If the results are skewed quite a bit then your system may benefit from a different HZ than what you have set. I have seen systems that require a HZ of 350 and as weird as it sounds NTPd may be tasting the clock too much just to try and keep time.
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