OS suddenly VERY busy

[Mikhail Teterin]

середа 20 липень 2005 01:34, John-Mark Gurney Ви написали:
> > This is a single-CPU Opteron running:
> >
> >       FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE #0: Fri Jun 10 09:11:30 EDT 2005 amd64
> >
> > The box has 2Gb of RAM, but NO SWAP.

> run ps lax a few times, and notice which process is fork bombing your
> box by seeing which process has the most changing children...

If found the culprit, and it was not fork bombing. It was vlc 
(multimedia/vlc-devel), that was not supposed to do anything. On the list of 
interrupts I posted originally, observe the 40 to 50 irqs/sec on pcm.

Once I told vlc to exit, the system returned back to normal...

Does not seem right :-(

	-mi