Re: Load average with CURRENT

On Sun, 7 Mar 2004, Andre Guibert de Bruet wrote:
>
> On Sun, 7 Mar 2004, Justin Dossey wrote:
>
> > Strangely, I'm seeing doubled load average numbers for my CURRENT
> > build.  This machine runs seti_at_home, so it should show a LA around 1
> > all the time.  After upgrading from 5.1-RELEASE to 5.2-CURRENT, LA
> > doubled.
> >
[snip]
> > > sysctl vm.loadavg
> > vm.loadavg: { 2.03 2.04 1.97 }
>
> Is this a system with multiple CPUs or a P4 with hyperthreading? It could
> be that you didn't previously have the APIC and SMP (or hyperthreading)
> options enabled in your kernel and now you do... Could you paste the first
> 15 lines of the output of "top -S"?
>
> Regards,
> Andy

It's a single CPU AMD Duron 1.3GHz, with SMP disabled, but APIC
enabled.

last pid:  5897;  load averages:  2.00,  2.00,  2.00  up 1+13:38:14 12:10:53
85 processes:  4 running, 48 sleeping, 33 waiting

Mem: 22M Active, 183M Inact, 70M Wired, 60M Buf, 219M Free
Swap: 1003M Total, 1003M Free


  PID USERNAME   PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE    TIME   WCPU    CPU COMMAND
  449 setiathome 139   15 16936K 15736K RUN     37.3H 97.66% 97.66% setiathome
   36 root       -48 -167     0K    12K WAIT     4:30  0.00%  0.00% swi8: tty:s
   54 root        20    0     0K    12K syncer   3:35  0.00%  0.00% syncer
   11 root       -16    0     0K    12K RUN      2:01  0.00%  0.00% idle
   29 root       -68 -187     0K    12K WAIT     1:52  0.00%  0.00% irq19: ndis
   39 root        20    0     0K    12K suspkt   0:57  0.00%  0.00% ndis swi
    2 root        -8    0     0K    12K -        0:20  0.00%  0.00% g_event

I ran "top -S -d1 |grep RUN" and found the setiathome and idle
processes above, plus this:

   52 root       171   52     0K    12K RUN      0:04  0.00%  0.00% pagezero

The kernel is compiled with cpu I686_CPU.

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Justin Dossey