From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 15 14:22:13 2008 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 6DC131065675 for ; Sat, 15 Mar 2008 14:22:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gpeel@thenetnow.com) Received: from thenetnow.com (thenetnow.com [69.90.69.141]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 477D58FC24 for ; Sat, 15 Mar 2008 14:22:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gpeel@thenetnow.com) Received: from hpeel.ody.ca ([216.240.12.2] helo=GRANT) by constellation.thenetnow.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.63 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1JaXH2-0001lC-8h for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 15 Mar 2008 10:22:12 -0400 Message-ID: <000b01c886a7$f5fa2150$6501a8c0@GRANT> From: "Grant Peel" To: Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 10:22:11 -0400 Organization: The Net Now MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3138 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198 Subject: Load Averages X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Grant Peel List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 14:22:13 -0000 Hi all, I have a machine that has be up now for a little over two years: voyager ROOT /var/log > w 10:15AM up 741 days, 2:42, 1 user, load averages: 1.06, 1.02, 1.00 USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE WHAT **** p0 ************ 10:08AM - w and as you can see from the 'w' output above, the load average is running about 1.00 for all three timeframes. This machine is a nameserver only and has only a few processes running on it. I have tried shutting down all but the very necessary of processes and the 1-5-15 minute averages stay the same. This has only started over the past week. At the start of last week, my mrtg graphs showed it spiked at 1.00 for about an hour, then subsided. It did the same a few days later, and today, has been at 1.00 since about midnight. This machine is a Dell PE 500SC (Vintage about 2002), and is running FreeBSD 4.4. Questions: Is there another way (other than top or ps) that will show what is causing the spike? ps and top are showing nothing. Should I be worried? COuld this be an indication of a hardware problem? Here is the top output: last pid: 5181; load averages: 1.00, 1.00, 1.00 up 741+02:47:14 10:19:56 23 processes: 1 running, 22 sleeping CPU states: 0.4% user, 0.0% nice, 0.4% system, 0.0% interrupt, 99.2% idle Mem: 34M Active, 102M Inact, 44M Wired, 9924K Cache, 35M Buf, 58M Free Swap: 516M Total, 1416K Used, 514M Free PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND 5181 root 28 0 1888K 1004K RUN 0:00 1.35% 0.24% top 4988 root 2 0 12084K 11540K select 0:36 0.10% 0.10% named 182 root 10 0 208K 0K nfsidl 6:05 0.00% 0.00% nfsiod 92063 root 10 0 968K 628K nanslp 4:12 0.00% 0.00% cron 172 root 2 0 940K 428K select 2:52 0.00% 0.00% syslogd 183 root 10 0 208K 0K nfsidl 2:36 0.00% 0.00% nfsiod 184 root 10 0 208K 0K nfsidl 1:57 0.00% 0.00% nfsiod 211 root 2 0 904K 352K select 1:49 0.00% 0.00% usbd 185 root 10 0 208K 0K nfsidl 0:28 0.00% 0.00% nfsiod 38935 root 2 0 2100K 784K select 0:11 0.00% 0.00% sshd 5102 root 2 0 2144K 1332K select 0:00 0.00% 0.00% sshd 4984 root 2 0 6760K 6052K select 0:00 0.00% 0.00% perl 5107 root 18 0 1296K 816K pause 0:00 0.00% 0.00% csh 5103 gpeel 18 0 1292K 820K pause 0:00 0.00% 0.00% tcsh 291 root 3 0 944K 288K ttyin 0:00 0.00% 0.00% getty 292 root 3 0 944K 288K ttyin 0:00 0.00% 0.00% getty 295 root 3 0 944K 288K ttyin 0:00 0.00% 0.00% getty 293 root 3 0 944K 288K ttyin 0:00 0.00% 0.00% getty 315 root 3 0 944K 288K ttyin 0:00 0.00% 0.00% getty 290 root 3 0 944K 288K ttyin 0:00 0.00% 0.00% getty 294 root 3 0 944K 288K ttyin 0:00 0.00% 0.00% getty 289 root 3 0 944K 288K ttyin 0:00 0.00% 0.00% getty 28 root 18 0 208K 0K pause 0:00 0.00% 0.00% adjkerntz and here is ps: voyager ROOT /var/log > ps -ax PID TT STAT TIME COMMAND 0 ?? DLs 0:40.00 (swapper) 1 ?? ILs 0:00.85 /sbin/init -- 2 ?? DL 1:55.25 (pagedaemon) 3 ?? DL 0:00.00 (vmdaemon) 4 ?? DL 9:38.95 (bufdaemon) 5 ?? DL 1151:29.78 (syncer) 28 ?? Is 0:00.00 adjkerntz -i 172 ?? Ss 2:52.26 /usr/sbin/syslogd -s 182 ?? I 6:05.35 nfsiod -n 4 183 ?? I 2:35.51 nfsiod -n 4 184 ?? I 1:56.52 nfsiod -n 4 185 ?? I 0:27.87 nfsiod -n 4 211 ?? Is 1:49.09 /usr/sbin/usbd 4984 ?? Ss 0:00.09 /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/webmin-1.320/miniserv.pl /etc/webmin/miniserv.co 4988 ?? Ss 0:35.94 named 5102 ?? S 0:00.31 sshd: ******* (sshd) 38935 ?? Is 0:11.12 /usr/sbin/sshd 92063 ?? Is 4:11.62 cron 5103 p0 Is 0:00.02 -tcsh (tcsh) 5107 p0 S 0:00.05 _su (csh) 5195 p0 R+ 0:00.00 ps -ax 315 v0 Is+ 0:00.00 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv0 289 v1 Is+ 0:00.00 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv1 290 v2 Is+ 0:00.00 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv2 291 v3 Is+ 0:00.00 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv3 292 v4 Is+ 0:00.00 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv4 293 v5 Is+ 0:00.00 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv5 294 v6 Is+ 0:00.00 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv6 295 v7 Is+ 0:00.00 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv7 TIA, -Grant