Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 12:28:03 -0400 From: Mikhail Teterin <mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com> To: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: amd64@freebsd.org, stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OS suddenly VERY busy Message-ID: <200507221228.03573.mi%2Bmx@aldan.algebra.com> In-Reply-To: <20050720053432.GA62369@funkthat.com> References: <200507200419.j6K4Jpgd083006@blue.virtual-estates.net> <20050720053432.GA62369@funkthat.com>
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ÓÅÒÅÄÁ 20 ÌÉÐÅÎØ 2005 01:34, John-Mark Gurney ÷É ÎÁÐÉÓÁÌÉ: > > This is a single-CPU Opteron running: > > > > ššššššFreeBSD 5.4-STABLE #0: Fri Jun 10 09:11:30 EDT 2005 amd64 > > > > The box has 2Gb of RAM, but NO SWAP. > run ps lax a few times, and notice which process is fork bombing your > box by seeing which process has the most changing children... If found the culprit, and it was not fork bombing. It was vlc (multimedia/vlc-devel), that was not supposed to do anything. On the list of interrupts I posted originally, observe the 40 to 50 irqs/sec on pcm. Once I told vlc to exit, the system returned back to normal... Does not seem right :-( -mi
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