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Date:      Tue, 15 May 2001 10:01:13 -0400 (EDT)
From:      seth@psychotic.aberrant.org
To:        FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject:   kern/27334: load average constantly above 1.0, even when idle
Message-ID:  <20010515140113.D071672501@psychotic.aberrant.org>

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>Number:         27334
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       load average constantly above 1.0, even when idle
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue May 15 07:10:02 PDT 2001
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Seth
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD psychotic.aberrant.org 4.3-STABLE FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE #0: Mon May 14 22:11:40 EDT 2001 seth@psychotic.aberrant.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/KERNEL-E i386

-STABLE from two days ago (13 May 2001).

AMD Athlon Thunderbird 1GHz, /proc filesystem, securelevel=1.


>Description:
This sounds similar to kern/21155, but occurs in -STABLE rather than
-CURRENT.  It didn't happen on my old system (a dual-proc ppro 200), but
there are so many differences: smp, 4.0 (vs -stable) that it's not a good
comparison.

Nothing seems to be affected, but any programs that rely on load average to
determine whether or not to take or suspend action will be affected.  This
is why I made this report a medium priority.

A quick snapshot from top:

last pid:  1729;  load averages:  1.00,  1.00,  1.00    up 0+11:41:00  09:58:15
40 processes:  1 running, 39 sleeping
CPU states:  0.0% user,  0.0% nice,  0.0% system,  0.0% interrupt,  100% idle
Mem: 12M Active, 39M Inact, 21M Wired, 60K Cache, 35M Buf, 177M Free
Swap: 512M Total, 512M Free

  PID USERNAME PRI NICE  SIZE    RES STATE    TIME   WCPU    CPU COMMAND
 1729 seth      28   0  1892K  1172K RUN      0:00  1.08%  0.20% top
 1367 root       2   0  2272K  1892K select   0:01  0.00%  0.00% sshd
 1348 root       2   0  2232K  1852K select   0:01  0.00%  0.00% sshd
  158 root       2 -12  1256K   844K select   0:00  0.00%  0.00% ntpd
 1356 seth       2   0  2152K  1876K select   0:00  0.00%  0.00% epic-EPIC4-1.0
 1354 seth       2   0  1568K  1256K select   0:00  0.00%  0.00% screen


(there's more, but those are the top 6.)


>How-To-Repeat:
  run top or uptime, check load average.

>Fix:

	
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