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Date:      Wed, 20 Apr 2005 06:47:02 -0400
From:      Damian Gerow <dgerow@afflictions.org>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: load > 1, no process using >10% CPU...?
Message-ID:  <20050420104701.GA1444@afflictions.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050420021044.GA29613@dan.emsphone.com>
References:  <20050420011930.GF770@afflictions.org> <20050420020524.GG770@afflictions.org> <20050420021044.GA29613@dan.emsphone.com>

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Thus spake Dan Nelson (dnelson@allantgroup.com) [19/04/05 22:13]:
: > It turned out to be a runaway xmms process.  But I still find it
: > strange that it didn't show anything obvious in top.
: 
: If xmms is threaded, you probably got bit by the "libpthread doesn't do
: process CPU accounting" bug.  Most threaded processes will just show up
: as 0 %CPU in top, no matter what they're doing.  The rusage stats are
: handled correctly, though, so look for processes whose TIME value is
: increasing at one (or more if you're SMP) seconds per second.

That would be it, thanks.



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