From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Aug 4 23: 8: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D214437B401 for ; Sun, 4 Aug 2002 23:07:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from services.webwarrior.net (overlord-host99.dsl.visi.com [209.98.86.99]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12C3E43E7B for ; Sun, 4 Aug 2002 23:07:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from friar_josh@webwarrior.net) Received: from twincat.vladsempire.net (12-218-27-215.client.mchsi.com [12.218.27.215]) by services.webwarrior.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A58C1838205; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 01:07:55 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 13:14:27 +0000 From: Josh Paetzel To: "Peter C. Verhage" Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Weird load averages Message-ID: <20011114131427.A91443@twincat.vladsempire.net> References: <004101c16cd7$b714b2c0$0200000a@peter> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <004101c16cd7$b714b2c0$0200000a@peter>; from peter@no-nonsense.org on Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 07:43:48AM +0100 Lines: 32 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 07:43:48AM +0100, Peter C. Verhage wrote: > last pid: 72033; load averages: 1.01, 1.02, 0.94 up 18+11:55:05 > 07:38:59 > 38 processes: 1 running, 37 sleeping > CPU states: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.0% system, 1.2% interrupt, 98.8% > idle > Mem: 107M Active, 76M Inact, 33M Wired, 12M Cache, 35M Buf, 20M Free > Swap: 512M Total, 156K Used, 512M Free > > Check the load averages. They have been like that for over 5 minutes now > (I've been looking at it for 5 minutes now, so maybe even longer...). And > they don't change! If I look at the CPU states and if I look at the CPU time > of every process it's almost 0.00 for each process. So I don't understand > why the load averages don't decrease... :/ > > Peter > > P.S. > Running: FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE #2: Fri Oct 26 20:31:04 CEST 2001 > (sources where updated on the same day...) > I am running a system that has almost identical stats when I do a top, except that my load averages are 0 0 0. Try doing a top -s.01 Every instance of this I start causes my load average to jump about 1.0 or so. I should warn that I am on an SMP system, I don't know how top deals with that. But anyways, my thinking is that by starting a high load process your load averages should go up. If they don't it must be some sort of evil bug. Josh To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message