From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753798AbXC3COt (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Mar 2007 22:14:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753804AbXC3COt (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Mar 2007 22:14:49 -0400 Received: from ik-out-1112.google.com ([66.249.90.180]:25788 "EHLO ik-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753798AbXC3COs (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Mar 2007 22:14:48 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=N0Y5iPn2xwsuU58fS16LPCjNogF4AF9NDF7yB9vZgSQajeoZyAfKSdrk6rsyYhEZcfr1zDDd0DV0/X3wtN6zlQTCdVbHLsjlEzmuoLC0UokUWp6pLfSWTxEUc4Kwna++tCx6K1UaN/hq2/9daqwhEepQfjTPKcUFzkAWJkVbtWQ= Message-ID: <75b66ecd0703291914n551b49d8n93cfbb3374ba8752@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 22:14:46 -0400 From: "Lee Revell" To: "Elliott Johnson" Subject: Re: strange high system cpu usage. Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20070329222221.9C53BCA0A4@ws5-11.us4.outblaze.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20070329222221.9C53BCA0A4@ws5-11.us4.outblaze.com> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 86df4c318bf446a1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 3/29/07, Elliott Johnson wrote: > Hello, > > I've been upgrading a few machines here at work and noticed some problems with high system cpu usage on one machine. In trying to debug the problem I've come across a few confusing stats that I was hoping could be cleared up by someone on this list. What problem are you trying to solve? IOW, how do you know it's not just an artifact of diferent load average calculation between 2.4 and 2.6? Are you actually seeing reduced throughput/performance? Or are you just looking at load average? Lee