From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Jun 20 23:32: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from workhorse.iMach.com (workhorse.iMach.com [206.127.77.89]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9976937B403 for ; Wed, 20 Jun 2001 23:32:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from forrestc@imach.com) Received: from localhost (forrestc@localhost) by workhorse.iMach.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA16030 for ; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 00:10:01 -0600 (MDT) Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 00:10:01 -0600 (MDT) From: "Forrest W. Christian" To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Funky load average Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I'm asking this here because I don't really monitor many of the other lists anymore (too much to read too little time). Has anyone seen anything like this: (from top) last pid: 59601; load averages: 2.57, 2.76, 2.52 105 processes: 1 running, 104 sleeping CPU states: 22.5% user,0.0% nice,3.9% system,0.4% interrupt,73.3% idle Mem: 53M Active, 150M Inact, 46M Wired, 12K Cache, 61M Buf, 250M Free Swap: 512M Total, 512M Free It is just sitting like this. It seems kinda bizzare that we have a load over 2-3 and I'd guess the idle is around 50% average. (The load is usally between 2-3, the idle is usually between 30-70%, and there isn't any swap usage). iostat doesn't seem too out of whack except the "b" column (blocked processes) is usually over 10. Is there any way to tell what they are waiting for? It doesn't look like disk, as the disk light was on only about 50% of the time when I checked it earlier (when this was occuring). Can anyone shed some light on this? - Forrest W. Christian (forrestc@imach.com) AC7DE ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Innovation Machine Ltd. P.O. Box 5749 http://www.imach.com/ Helena, MT 59604 Home of PacketFlux Technogies and BackupDNS.com (406)-442-6648 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Protect your personal freedoms - visit http://www.lp.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message