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

[Jakub Jasinski]

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

From: Jakub Jasinski <jakub.jasinski at utoronto.ca>
To: Kris Kennaway <kris at FreeBSD.org>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: misc/126230: weird process cpu usage stats and weird load
 average
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 11:52:08 -0400

 No.
 
 I ran ktrace on the processes and ktrace.out was empty.
 
 Read my follow up message: I already had a lengthy conversation with
 Remko about this.
 
 NONE of the processes were running.  The non-zero TIME is nonsense as
 well and only accumulated after rsync was left running.
 
 On Mon, 04 Aug 2008 13:34:44 +0200
 Kris Kennaway <kris at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
 
 > This shows that various processes have recently been running,
 > explaining the load average.  You can also see that the same
 > processes that have non-zero WCPU have non-zero TIME, indicating that
 > they have accumulated CPU runtime.  All of this is self-consistent
 > and points to the fact that you have processes running on your server.
 > 
 > Kris