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Date:      Sun, 1 Mar 1998 15:38:50 -0600
From:      dannyman <dannyman@sasquatch.dannyland.org>
To:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   high load, idle CPU
Message-ID:  <19980301153850.12942@urh.uiuc.edu>

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my system has just jumped in to sustained high load, and i don't know why.
this is a build of -current i think within the past week.  would this be a
bug in the system somewhere, or some naturally weird phenomenon?  (i don't
know whether to send-pr or email hackers, but the traffic's been a bit light
so ...)

top -b;

last pid: 27341;  load averages:  3.16,  2.50,  1.56    15:35:37
86 processes:  3 running, 83 sleeping

Mem: 6368K Active, 48M Inact, 16M Wired, 6908K Cache, 8323K Buf, 712K Free
Swap: 100M Total, 87M Used, 13M Free, 87% Inuse


  PID USERNAME PRI NICE  SIZE    RES STATE    TIME   WCPU    CPU COMMAND
  243 root       2   0  5256K  3268K select  53:30  2.17%  2.17% XF86_S3
  261 dannyman   2   0   296K   356K select  13:04  0.08%  0.08% xdaliclock
  260 dannyman  10   0   272K   364K nanslp   7:36  0.04%  0.04% xosview
17294 dannyman   2   0   516K  1280K select   0:00  0.04%  0.04% xterm
  263 dannyman  10   0   728K   296K nanslp  14:57  0.00%  0.00% xearth
  740 dannyman  10   0 75012K   844K wait     1:09  0.00%  0.00% perl5.00404
  270 dannyman   2   0 17508K   816K select   0:56  0.00%  0.00% pppload
  194 root       2   0   248K   272K select   0:37  0.00%  0.00% atalkd
  174 root      10   0   500K   264K nanslp   0:26  0.00%  0.00% httpd
  216 root       2   0   476K   388K select   0:23  0.00%  0.00% nmbd
27464 dannyman  10   0   232K   296K nanslp   0:22  0.00%  0.00% tail
17212 dannyman   2   0   296K   608K select   0:18  0.00%  0.00% xdaliclock
23232 dannyman   2   0 13044K  2420K select   0:15  0.00%  0.00% communicator-4
22329 dannyman   2   0   404K   288K select   0:14  0.00%  0.00% ssh
17214 dannyman  10   0   584K   508K nanslp   0:11  0.00%  0.00% xearth
  256 dannyman   2   0   396K   300K select   0:08  0.00%  0.00% afterstep
  268 dannyman   2   0   284K   408K select   0:07  0.00%  0.00% xload
 4046 dannyman   2   0   764K   344K select   0:07  0.00%  0.00% mutt

okay, and if dmesg is something that might be valuable;

Copyright (c) 1992-1998 FreeBSD Inc.
Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
	The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT #2: Wed Feb 25 00:50:33 CST 1998
    root@arh0300.urh.uiuc.edu:/newhome/src/sys/compile/STUMPY
Timecounter "i8254"  frequency 1193182 Hz  cost 2524 ns
Timecounter "TSC"  frequency 99952270 Hz  cost 356 ns
CPU: AMD-K5(tm) Processor (99.95-MHz 586-class CPU)
  Origin = "AuthenticAMD"  Id = 0x511  Stepping=1
  Features=0x21bf<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8,PGE>
real memory  = 83886080 (81920K bytes)
avail memory = 79253504 (77396K bytes)
Probing for devices on PCI bus 0:
chip0: <Intel 82437VX PCI cache memory controller> rev 0x02 on pci0.0.0
chip1: <Intel 82371SB PCI to ISA bridge> rev 0x01 on pci0.7.0
ide_pci0: <Intel PIIX3 Bus-master IDE controller> rev 0x00 on pci0.7.1
vga0: <S3 Trio graphics accelerator> rev 0x54 int a irq 11 on pci0.17.0
ed1: <NE2000 PCI Ethernet (RealTek 8029)> rev 0x00 int a irq 10 on pci0.20.0
ed1: address 00:c0:0c:b0:ad:c6, type NE2000 (16 bit) 
Probing for devices on the ISA bus:
sc0 at 0x60-0x6f irq 1 on motherboard
sc0: VGA color <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x0>
ed0 not found at 0x280
sio0 at 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 on isa
sio0: type 16550A
sio1 at 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa
sio1: type 16550A
lpt1 at 0x378-0x37f on isa
fdc0 at 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa
fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold
fd0: 1.44MB 3.5in
wdc0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14 on isa
wdc0: unit 0 (wd0): <WDC AC21200H>
wd0: 1222MB (2503872 sectors), 2484 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S
wdc1 at 0x170-0x177 irq 15 on isa
wdc1: unit 0 (wd2): <WDC AC36400L>
wd2: 6149MB (12594960 sectors), 13328 cyls, 15 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S
wdc1: unit 1 (atapi): <WEARNES CDD-820/B1.1>, removable, dma, iordy
wcd0: 1377Kb/sec, 256Kb cache, audio play, 256 volume levels, ejectable tray
wcd0: 120mm audio disc loaded, unlocked, lock protected
npx0 flags 0x1 on motherboard
npx0: INT 16 interface
sb0 at 0x220 irq 5 drq 1 on isa
snd0: <SoundBlaster 16 4.13> 
sbxvi0 at ? drq 5 on isa
snd0: <SoundBlaster 16 4.13> 
sbmidi0 at 0x330 on isa
snd0: <SoundBlaster MPU-401> 
opl0 at 0x388 on isa
snd0: <Yamaha OPL3 FM> 
pid 848 (pppload), uid 1000: exited on signal 6 (core dumped)
pid 15218 (pppload), uid 1000: exited on signal 6 (core dumped)
pid 27498 (pppload), uid 1000: exited on signal 6 (core dumped)
swap_pager: suggest more swap space: 158 MB
pid 17228 (pppload), uid 1000: exited on signal 6 (core dumped)

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