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Date:      Fri, 19 Nov 2010 09:54:33 +1300
From:      Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
To:        =?KOI8-R?B?68/O2MvP1yDl18fFzsnK?= <kes-kes@yandex.ru>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: strange behaviour on FreeBSD 7.1
Message-ID:  <AANLkTinft5P=0nO7Zk6N95euprmE0PKOF4g7hNqqGTF%2B@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <683205662.20101117203818@yandex.ru>
References:  <683205662.20101117203818@yandex.ru>

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2010/11/18 =EB=CF=CE=D8=CB=CF=D7 =E5=D7=C7=C5=CE=C9=CA <kes-kes@yandex.ru>:
> Hi.
>
> Sometimes system goes to this situation: 0% idle and no processes take CP=
U time
>
> #top -SIHP
> last pid: 62813; =9Aload averages: =9A4.17, =9A3.64, =9A2.16 =9A up 28+06=
:44:02 =9A20:41:41
> 155 processes: 7 running, 129 sleeping, 19 waiting
> CPU: 99.3% user, =9A0.0% nice, =9A0.7% system, =9A0.0% interrupt, =9A0.0%=
 idle
> Mem: 177M Active, 27M Inact, 124M Wired, 13M Cache, 60M Buf, 148M Free
> Swap: 2048M Total, 51M Used, 1997M Free, 2% Inuse
>
> =9APID USERNAME =9A PRI NICE =9A SIZE =9A =9ARES STATE =9A =9ATIME =9A WC=
PU COMMAND
>
> #top
> last pid: 62852; =9Aload averages: =9A4.10, =9A3.67, =9A2.22 =9A up 28+06=
:44:36 =9A20:42:15
> 172 processes: 4 running, 168 sleeping
> CPU: 99.6% user, =9A0.0% nice, =9A0.4% system, =9A0.0% interrupt, =9A0.0%=
 idle
> Mem: 203M Active, 27M Inact, 125M Wired, 13M Cache, 60M Buf, 121M Free
> Swap: 2048M Total, 51M Used, 1997M Free, 2% Inuse
>
> =9APID USERNAME =9A =9ATHR PRI NICE =9A SIZE =9A =9ARES STATE =9A =9ATIME=
 =9A WCPU COMMAND
> 62817 root =9A =9A =9A =9A 36 =9A-8 =9A =9A0 29696K 23276K piperd =9A 0:0=
0 =9A7.62% perl5.8.8

If you look at the "last pid" between the 2 top-output snippets, you
can see that approx 40 processes came and went in-between. This
indiciates that you probably have some script running that's spawning
a large number of short-lived processes.
--=20
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>



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