From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 19 20:22:09 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F62710656BC for ; Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:22:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from danger@rulez.sk) Received: from virtual.micronet.sk (smtp.micronet.sk [84.16.32.237]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8F5B8FC19 for ; Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:22:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from danger@rulez.sk) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by virtual.micronet.sk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FCCB10E5D2; Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:50:16 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at virtual.micronet.sk Received: from virtual.micronet.sk ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (virtual.micronet.sk [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id DDz1ATUEAJFg; Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:50:14 +0100 (CET) Received: from DANGER-PC (danger.mcrn.sk [84.16.37.254]) by virtual.micronet.sk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78D6810E579; Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:50:14 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:51:27 +0100 From: Daniel Gerzo X-Mailer: The Bat! (v3.99.3) Professional X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <1075101608.20080319205127@rulez.sk> To: Oliver Fromme In-Reply-To: <200803191753.m2JHraI5092556@lurza.secnetix.de> References: <669936444.20080319100148@rulez.sk> <200803191753.m2JHraI5092556@lurza.secnetix.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re[2]: Weird system cpu usage X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Daniel Gerzo List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:22:09 -0000 Hello Oliver, Wednesday, March 19, 2008, 6:53:36 PM, you wrote: > Charlie Root wrote: >> [...] > It's preferable to send mail as a real user, not as root, > for various reasons. I know, I've just forgot to edit the headers, my apologies. >> I have to report, that I have a very strange cpu usage by system (as >> the `top' reports). > You haven't mentioned what exactly you think is strange > in your top(1) output. I think it looks pretty normal > under the given circumstances. What do you mean by "given" circumstances? I don't think that 50+% cpu usage by system is that normal. >> root@[ha-web1 ~]# vmstat -i >> interrupt total rate >> irq1: atkbd0 12 0 >> irq16: ohci0 1 0 >> irq17: ohci1 ohci3 1 0 >> irq18: ohci2 ohci4 1 0 >> irq20: em0 86255835 1361 >> irq22: em1 atapci0 18611379049 293795 > Now that looks unusual indeed. Do you get that rate > on irq22 right after boot, before the services have > started? It looks like either hardware or driver > problems. Do you have polling enabled on em1? No, the rate slowly increases after the system boots. Polling is disabled at the moment. -- Best regards, Daniel mailto:danger@rulez.sk