From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Dec 11 18:30:25 2000 From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 11 18:30:24 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from pathlink.net (ns2.pathlink.com [209.155.233.197]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 148BD37B400 for ; Mon, 11 Dec 2000 18:30:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from dvl-1 (dvl-1.pathlink.com [209.155.56.211]) by pathlink.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id SAA32402 for ; Mon, 11 Dec 2000 18:30:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kachun@pathlink.com) Message-Id: <200012120230.SAA32402@pathlink.net> X-Sender: kachun@linda.pathlink.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0.1 Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 18:30:11 -0800 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org From: Kachun Lee Subject: Extreme high load with 12/7 4-releng Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I upgraded 2 of our servers from 4-releng around 4.1.1-release to one that cvsup on Dec 7. Before the upgrade, the systems were running at load around 2. After the upgrade, the load went to over 40 just after few hours of usage. Here was some data from top... ----- last pid: 26893; load averages: 36.05, 40.55, 47.01 up 0+04:29:07 18:14:54 513 processes: 9 running, 503 sleeping, 1 zombie CPU states: 21.3% user, 0.7% nice, 30.0% system, 10.7% interrupt, 37.3% idle Mem: 196M Active, 204M Inact, 83M Wired, 17M Cache, 61M Buf, 1152K Free Swap: 600M Total, 17M Used, 583M Free, 2% Inuse, 232K Out ----- The one thing I noticed was the system started swaping constantly, even though the Swap Used did not go up. Also, the system still had 204M Inact. No Swap Used before the upgrade. I did some search on the mail lists and saw a long thread in hacker related to vm_paging, but I could not find any conlusion to that thread. I did not see any MFC, other than a vm issue that needed to turn on by sysctl, that looked might be related. Any insight to this problem? Best regards To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message