Re: unusually high load averages

From: Melvyn Sopacua <freebsd-current_at_webteckies.org>
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 00:08:17 +0100
On Thursday 29 January 2004 22:34, Jake Khuon wrote:

> I'm noticing some unusually high load averages even though nothing seems to
> be taking up much CPU.  This started happening with a recent cvsup (last
> night).  Anyone know what might be causing this?

You are actually seeing > 0.00% CPU/WCPU, cause with me everything is zero, 
allthough I know for sure that's not true.

A good ref is audio/ices. This takes roughly 30% CPU all the time on 4.9. Just 
installed it on this box and load is the same (never below 40%), it has prio 
132, TIME shows more or less the time it's running - but no WCPU/CPU values, 
even in RUN state (it's mostly in select).

The system shows:
last pid: 30823;  load averages:  1.14,  0.74,  0.64    up 0+11:47:01  
00:06:45
82 processes:  3 running, 78 sleeping, 1 zombie
CPU states: 34.7% user,  0.0% nice,  9.3% system,  0.8% interrupt, 55.2% idle
Mem: 295M Active, 91M Inact, 91M Wired, 15M Cache, 60M Buf, 2336K Free
Swap: 1024M Total, 13M Used, 1011M Free, 1% Inuse

  PID USERNAME PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE    TIME   WCPU    CPU COMMAND
30487 mdev     132    0 11984K  9208K RUN     12:52  0.00%  0.00% ices

-- 
Melvyn

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