misc/126230: weird process cpu usage stats and weird load

[Gavin Atkinson]

The following reply was made to PR misc/126230; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Gavin Atkinson <gavin at FreeBSD.org>
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: misc/126230: weird process cpu usage stats and weird load
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 21:35:17 +0100 (BST)

 Just a thought: what is the output of "sysctl dev.cpu.0" both before, 
 and after running rsync?  If for some reason your CPU is ending up in a 
 very low frequency mode, then it's not inconceivable that daemons would 
 appear to take a much greater share of the CPU than usual.  Also, I'm 
 assuming the clock maintains time normally?