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Date:      Thu, 2 Oct 2014 15:34:40 +0200
From:      Michael Gmelin <freebsd@grem.de>
To:        Karl Pielorz <kpielorz_lst@tdx.co.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: High load average inside idle FreeBSD guest running on bhyve
Message-ID:  <20141002153440.1b068577@bsd64.grem.de>
In-Reply-To: <150732A9664399A7AA28EC57@Mail-PC.tdx.co.uk>
References:  <542D0785.8030909@borderworlds.dk> <150732A9664399A7AA28EC57@Mail-PC.tdx.co.uk>

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On Thu, 02 Oct 2014 11:49:19 +0100
Karl Pielorz <kpielorz_lst@tdx.co.uk> wrote:

> 
> 
> --On 02 October 2014 10:06 +0200 Christian Laursen
> <xi@borderworlds.dk> wrote:
> 
> > Hello
> >
> > I have a few bhyve instances running that all seem to have a higher
> > load average than what would seem normal for a system that is idle.
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > last pid:  6109;  load averages:  0.41,  0.38,  0.39    up
> > 1+14:27:48 09:56:25
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I think this has been covered on other lists - and is apparently
> "normal" (i.e. cosmetic).
> 
> I've installed a number of FBSD10 boxes recently, and they all seem
> to idle at around that (even when doing absolutely nothing) - I did
> post about it and was told it was just cosmetic... It certainly seems
> to be cosmetic.
> 
> If it's the same issue - I'd guess it's not bhyve related...
> 
> "
> last pid:  1294;  load averages:  0.42,  0.32,  0.27 
> up 1+20:44:55  11:47:16
> 18 processes:  1 running, 17 sleeping
> CPU:  0.0% user,  0.0% nice,  0.0% system,  0.1% interrupt, 99.9% idle
> "
> 
> That's from a bare metal amd64 10.0-RELEASE-p9 box with no services /
> users on it.
> 
> Thinking about it - we had the same 'symptom' on a Xen based FBSD 10
> box as well...

For your bare metal box, could you send the output of vmstat -i ? I had
the same issue on older boxes and it went away after setting

hint.hpet.0.legacy_route=1
hint.attimer.0.clock=0
hint.atrtc.0.clock=0

in /boot/loader.conf (see hpet(4)).

> 
> -Karl
> 
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Michael Gmelin



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