Strange load averages on 5.3-STABLE

Dmitry Kozhevnikov xeon at dsi.ru
Thu Mar 10 06:32:13 PST 2005


please show us
1. cat /var/run/dmesg.boot
2. uname -a
3. egrep "(^REVISION|^BRANCH)" /usr/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh

GPT> David Fleck wrote:
>> On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Michael Ross wrote:
>> 
>>>> last pid: 771; load averages: 176.65, 770.13, 926.55 up 0+00:03:13
>>>> 08:11:07
>>>>
>>> Your may have compiled kernel and userland from different sources.
>>> " and programs like ps(1) and top(1) will fail to work until the 
>>> kernel and source code versions are the same." from the handbook is
>>> what comes to my mind.

GPT>   I've compiled from the same source.

>> I've also seen ridiculously-high load numbers when NFS-mounted 
>> filesystems are inaccessible.  Usually that degrades system performance,
>> though.

GPT>   It's strange because everything is working fine and I don't use NFS on
GPT> it. For example, the load hits 900 and suddenly it's 3.








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