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Date:      Sat, 19 Apr 1997 16:28:15 -0700
From:      Justin Wolf <jjwolf@bleeding.com>
To:        "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Stuck loadavg revisited
Message-ID:  <01BC4CDE.B02B2700@crimson>

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  I know there's been an ongoing discussion about this topic, but recently it happened to me again and I thought I'd share what I did.  Essentially I did the following:

# foreach i (`find . -name '*'`)
  chown root $i
  chgrp wheel $i
  chmod o-w $i
end

in one shell and several

# ls -lR | grep root | wc

in another to track the progress of the foreach in the first session.  I have X running and for posterity I'll post my 'top' at the end of this message as well as an uptime.  The path which this 'foreach' operated in contained about 2500 files, so this created several thousand new processes.  As of this writing (about 10 minutes later), the load is still at 1.0.  Hope this helps getting this annoying bug taken care of in the next release.

-Justin

(top follows)
last pid: 12165;  load averages:  1.03,  1.13,  1.18                   16:20:46
49 processes:  1 running, 48 sleeping
CPU states:  6.9% user,  0.0% nice,  4.2% system,  2.3% interrupt, 86.6% idle
Mem: 14M Active, 1708K Inact, 8676K Wired, 4624K Cache, 3558K Buf, 2008K Free
Swap: 27M Total, 12M Used, 15M Free, 43% Inuse

  PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE    RES STATE    TIME   WCPU    CPU COMMAND
12165 root     31   0   312K   836K RUN      0:00  4.48%  0.99% top
   56 root      2   0   556K   460K select 157:21  0.80%  0.80% ppp
   52 root      2   0   368K   216K select   0:31  0.04%  0.04% routed
 5790 root     18   0   596K  1012K pause    0:01  0.00%  0.00% tcsh
 4831 jjwolf   18   0   588K  1012K pause    0:00  0.00%  0.00% tcsh
 4268 jjwolf   18   0   588K   956K pause    0:00  0.00%  0.00% tcsh
  103 root     18   0   332K   288K pause    0:59  0.00%  0.00% cron
   23 root     18   0   200K    12K pause    0:00  0.00%  0.00% adjkerntz
 5199 root     10   0   320K   780K wait     0:00  0.00%  0.00% xdm
  147 root     10   0   392K   400K wait     8:21  0.00%  0.00% httpd
29671 jjwolf   10   0   476K   200K wait     0:00  0.00%  0.00% sh
29669 jjwolf   10   0   476K   200K wait     0:00  0.00%  0.00% sh
    1 root     10   0   384K    72K wait     0:03  0.00%  0.00% init
 4281 root      3   0  1308K  1680K ttyin    2:40  0.00%  0.00% tcsh
 5230 jjwolf    3   0   616K   740K ttyin    0:01  0.00%  0.00% tcsh
  160 root      3   0   164K   172K ttyin    0:00  0.00%  0.00% getty
  159 root      3   0   164K   172K ttyin    0:00  0.00%  0.00% getty
  161 root      3   0   164K   172K ttyin    0:00  0.00%  0.00% getty
  171 root      2   0  3780K  3032K select  55:17  0.00%  0.00% XF86_P9000
29662 jjwolf    2   0   460K  1648K select   0:01  0.00%  0.00% xterm
 5214 jjwolf    2   0   924K  1448K select   1:46  0.00%  0.00% xfm
29672 jjwolf    2   0   268K  1432K select   0:14  0.00%  0.00% xload
 5217 jjwolf    2   0   464K  1284K select   0:06  0.00%  0.00% xterm
18189 jjwolf    2   0   268K  1216K select   2:10  0.00%  0.00% xload
 5219 jjwolf    2   0   624K  1196K select   0:02  0.00%  0.00% xman
29670 jjwolf    2   0   204K  1184K select   0:09  0.00%  0.00% oclock
 5220 jjwolf    2   0   220K  1048K select   0:00  0.00%  0.00% xconsole
 5210 jjwolf    2   0   372K   788K select   0:25  0.00%  0.00% fvwm
29668 jjwolf    2   0   252K   784K select   0:02  0.00%  0.00% GoodStuff
10175 jjwolf    2   0   216K   628K select   0:00  0.00%  0.00% FvwmWinList
 4822 root      2   0   196K   608K select   0:01  0.00%  0.00% telnetd
 5226 jjwolf    2   0   228K   596K select   0:01  0.00%  0.00% FvwmPager
 4267 root      2   0   196K   556K select   0:04  0.00%  0.00% telnetd
  335 nobody    2   0   428K   528K accept   0:00  0.00%  0.00% httpd
 2790 nobody    2   0   428K   528K accept   0:00  0.00%  0.00% httpd
 2789 nobody    2   0   428K   528K accept   0:00  0.00%  0.00% httpd
  168 nobody    2   0   428K   528K accept   0:00  0.00%  0.00% httpd
  443 nobody    2   0   428K   528K accept   0:00  0.00%  0.00% httpd
  166 nobody    2   0   416K   528K accept   0:00  0.00%  0.00% httpd
  169 nobody    2   0   428K   520K accept   0:00  0.00%  0.00% httpd
  167 nobody    2   0   428K   520K accept   0:00  0.00%  0.00% httpd
  111 root      2   0   528K   516K accept   0:48  0.00%  0.00% sendmail

(uptime follows)
 4:21PM  up 9 days, 18:14, 4 users, load averages: 1.01, 1.11, 1.17




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