Re: Load average with CURRENT

On Sun, 7 Mar 2004, Justin Dossey wrote:

> 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
<snip>
>   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.

What scheduler are you using on this system?

> Andre Guibert de Bruet | Enterprise Software Consultant >
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