9.3 Process Averages

Grant Peel gpeel at thenetnow.com
Fri Oct 17 12:26:34 UTC 2014


Hi all,

 

     I have recently built FreeBSD 9.3 (i386) from the ground up (making our
next gen server build). 

Once complete I have been allowing it to run under no load, and have noticed
that the load averages

Hovering around 0.40 - 0.50 (see below).

     I have TERM'd and killed just about everything and the usage remains. I
have never seen any other server do

This with any other build. Is there something new in 9.x that might be
causing this? I have servers running 8.0

With lots of software running that is not this high.

    I am not at all concerned about the hardware as it was an active server
with no issues, and the system compiled

without any issues.

 

root at spare:/usr/local/etc/rc.d # top -Sa -s10

 

last pid:  3715;  load averages:  0.43,  0.44,  0.43                     up
0+08:55:07  08:14:46

33 processes:  2 running, 30 sleeping, 1 waiting

CPU:  0.0% user,  0.0% nice,  0.0% system,  0.0% interrupt,  100% idle

Mem: 12M Active, 309M Inact, 104M Wired, 88M Buf, 560M Free

Swap: 4096M Total, 4096M Free

 

  PID USERNAME    THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE   C   TIME    WCPU
COMMAND

   11 root          2 155 ki31     0K    16K RUN     1  17.8H 200.00% [idle]

   12 root         17 -84    -     0K   136K WAIT    0   0:42   0.00% [intr]

    8 root          1  16    -     0K     8K syncer  1   0:21   0.00%
[syncer]

   13 root          3  -8    -     0K    24K -       0   0:07   0.00% [geom]

   14 root          1 -16    -     0K     8K -       1   0:04   0.00%
[yarrow]

  977 gpeel         1  20    0 16224K  5452K select  0   0:02   0.00% sshd:
me at pts/0 (sshd)

   15 root         16 -68    -     0K   128K -       1   0:01   0.00% [usb]

    9 root          1 -16    -     0K     8K vlruwt  1   0:01   0.00%
[vnlru]

  974 root          1  20    0 16224K  5368K select  0   0:00   0.00% sshd:
me [priv] (sshd)

   16 root          1 -16    -     0K     8K sdflus  1   0:00   0.00%
[softdepflush]

  981 root          1  20    0 10864K  2860K pause   1   0:00   0.00% _su
(csh)

    7 root          1 -16    -     0K     8K psleep  1   0:00   0.00%
[bufdaemon]

    0 root          9 -52    0     0K    72K -       1   0:00   0.00%
[kernel]

  980 gpeel         1  20    0 10092K  2116K wait    1   0:00   0.00% su

    4 root          1 -16    -     0K     8K psleep  0   0:00   0.00%
[pagedaemon]

3715 root          1  20    0  9892K  2136K CPU1    1   0:00   0.00% top -Sa
-s10

  978 gpeel         1  22    0 10864K  2804K pause   1   0:00   0.00% -tcsh
(tcsh)

    1 root          1  20    0  8036K   588K wait    0   0:00   0.00% [init]

  408 root          1  20    0 12132K  3708K select  1   0:00   0.00%
/sbin/devd

  941 root          1  52    0  9544K  1524K ttyin   1   0:00   0.00%
/usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv

  885 root          1  20    0 13468K  4968K select  0   0:00   0.00%
/usr/sbin/sshd

  943 root          1  52    0  9544K  1524K ttyin   0   0:00   0.00%
/usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv

  946 root          1  52    0  9544K  1524K ttyin   1   0:00   0.00%
/usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv

  947 root          1  52    0  9544K  1524K ttyin   0   0:00   0.00%
/usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv

  942 root          1  52    0  9544K  1524K ttyin   1   0:00   0.00%
/usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv

 

root at spare:/usr/local/etc/rc.d # ps ax

PID TT  STAT       TIME COMMAND

   0 ??  DLs     0:00.07 [kernel]

   1 ??  ILs     0:00.01 /sbin/init --

   2 ??  DL      0:00.00 [sctp_iterator]

   3 ??  DL      0:00.00 [xpt_thrd]

   4 ??  DL      0:00.02 [pagedaemon]

   5 ??  DL      0:00.00 [vmdaemon]

   6 ??  DL      0:00.00 [pagezero]

   7 ??  DL      0:00.09 [bufdaemon]

   8 ??  DL      0:21.93 [syncer]

   9 ??  DL      0:00.58 [vnlru]

  10 ??  DL      0:00.00 [audit]

  11 ??  RL   1082:16.80 [idle]

  12 ??  WL      0:42.17 [intr]

  13 ??  DL      0:06.83 [geom]

  14 ??  DL      0:03.56 [yarrow]

  15 ??  DL      0:01.47 [usb]

  16 ??  DL      0:00.22 [softdepflush]

408 ??  Is      0:00.01 /sbin/devd

885 ??  Is      0:00.00 /usr/sbin/sshd

974 ??  Is      0:00.41 sshd: me [priv] (sshd)

977 ??  S       0:01.88 sshd: me at pts/0 (sshd)

941 v0  Is+     0:00.00 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv0

942 v1  Is+     0:00.00 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv1

943 v2  Is+     0:00.00 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv2

944 v3  Is+     0:00.00 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv3

945 v4  Is+     0:00.00 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv4

946 v5  Is+     0:00.00 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv5

947 v6  Is+     0:00.00 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv6

948 v7  Is+     0:00.00 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv7

978  0  Is      0:00.02 -tcsh (tcsh)

980  0  I       0:00.05 su

981  0  S       0:00.10 _su (csh)

3716  0  R+      0:00.00 ps ax

root at spare:/usr/local/etc/rc.d #

 

Regards,

 

-G



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