Re: load 1 at idle, 2.4.12-ac3

Re: load 1 at idle, 2.4.12-ac3

[Mike Fedyk]

On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 02:00:41PM -0300, martin sepulveda wrote:
> forget it!
> i've found what it was, and it is certainly *not* the kernel :)
> 
> thanks anyway, and sorry
> 

What was it?  A process stuck in D state?  Something like dist.net or seti?

Reminds me of recently when my X server (a couple days ago from
debian-unstable) cought a memory leak, and my system was swapping like
crazy.  I thought it was something to do with the shmem problem I found a
while back, but I looked at /proc/meminfo and no errors with shmem.  Finally
I checked top...

Unfortunately, the OOM killer killed a few things, all except for my X
server that was causing the problem.

Mike

load 1 at idle, 2.4.12-ac3

[martin sepulveda]

hi

while using 2.4.12-ac3 (plus rik's 2.4.12-ac3-vmpatch), y get a load of about 1, while
doing the same on a 2.4.10 gave about 0.10 - 0.15 load

root@core:~# uptime
  1:47pm  up  5:36,  4 users,  load average: 1.11, 1.02, 1.04
root@core:~# 

while a top doesn't show nothing to happen:

  1:48pm  up  5:36,  4 users,  load average: 1.05, 1.01, 1.03
89 processes: 81 sleeping, 8 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states:  2.7% user,  1.7% system,  0.0% nice, 95.4% idle
Mem:   126992K av,  100044K used,   26948K free,     196K shrd,    2588K buff
Swap:  265032K av,   17788K used,  247244K free                   62348K cached

  PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
 2721 root      15  -1 23668  10M  1468 R <   2.5  8.6   6:51 X
11778 root      10   0  1068 1068   820 R     0.3  0.8   0:00 top
    1 root       8   0    80   68    68 S     0.0  0.0   0:03 init
    3 root       9   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00 keventd
    4 root      19  19     0    0     0 SWN   0.0  0.0   0:00 ksoftirqd_CPU0
    5 root       9   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:01 kswapd

slackware 8.0, X 4.1.0, fvwm 1.24r, xfstt, esd, apache, mysql (both without
any connection but running).
P III 550, 128 MB, IDE HD (1), epic100 module for eth0, advansys module
for a CDR.

any idea?

M.

-- 
Talent does what it can, genius what it must.
I do what I get paid to do.

Re: load 1 at idle, 2.4.12-ac3

[martin sepulveda]

forget it!
i've found what it was, and it is certainly *not* the kernel :)

thanks anyway, and sorry

M.

Re: load 1 at idle, 2.4.12-ac3

[martin sepulveda]

what it was? a paused xmms plugin in development (xmms was stoped)

talk about shame :)

M.


On Thu, 18 Oct 2001 16:16:07 -0700
Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 02:00:41PM -0300, martin sepulveda wrote:
> > forget it!
> > i've found what it was, and it is certainly *not* the kernel :)
> > 
> > thanks anyway, and sorry
> > 
> 
> What was it?  A process stuck in D state?  Something like dist.net or seti?
> 
> Reminds me of recently when my X server (a couple days ago from
> debian-unstable) cought a memory leak, and my system was swapping like
> crazy.  I thought it was something to do with the shmem problem I found a
> while back, but I looked at /proc/meminfo and no errors with shmem.  Finally
> I checked top...
> 
> Unfortunately, the OOM killer killed a few things, all except for my X
> server that was causing the problem.
> 
> Mike

-- 
Talent does what it can, genius what it must.
I do what I get paid to do.