High system time, 10-BETA3 on a Netra T1

[Craig Butler]

On Wed, 2013-11-13 at 20:40 +0000, symbolics at gmx.com wrote:

> List,
> 
> I've recently obtained a Netra T1 AC200 and installed FreeBSD 10-BETA3.
> I know this system is old and won't be quick, however, something looks
> odd.
> 
> I'm running portsnap extract. top is reporting that ~65% of the time is
> being spent in the kernel, with about 25% left for user, about ~10 for
> idle and the rest on interrupts. The disc itself is running at about 20%
> busy according to gstat.
> 
> Looking at 'top -S -m io' I see that bufdaemon is running at ~98%.
> 
> Is this something I should look into further or just accept?
> 
> --sym
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Hello Sym

I don't think I am seeing that on 9.2-RELEASE on the sparc64..


root at bulldog:~# top -S -m io

last pid:  4305;  load averages:  0.83,  0.32,  0.15    up 0+00:18:02  22:35:28
64 processes:  3 running, 60 sleeping, 1 waiting
CPU: 25.0% user,  0.0% nice, 68.0% system,  0.0% interrupt,  7.0% idle
Mem: 92M Active, 39M Inact, 108M Wired, 336K Buf, 741M Free
Swap: 4099M Total, 4099M Free

  PID USERNAME     VCSW  IVCSW   READ  WRITE  FAULT  TOTAL PERCENT COMMAND
 1465 root           63     29     27      0      0     27 100.00% sh
   11 root            0     47      0      0      0      0   0.00% idle
    0 root           52      0      0      0      0      0   0.00% kernel
 3780 root            2      1      0      0      0      0   0.00% top


gstat showing my disk at 2-3% busy... then 100% for a few seconds, then
back to 2-3%... 

The portsnap extract appears to be operating normally for a 500Mhz
UltraSparc IIe.

Kind Regards

Craig Butler