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From: gil@wwa.com (Gil Levendel)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Strange Load Averages
Date: 4 Mar 1996 21:56:22 GMT
Organization: WorldWide Access - Chicago Area Internet Services
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I've just recently noticed something interesting with the
load average as displayed by "uptime", "w", etc.
It seems that the load average bottoms out at 1.00. My
machine can be completely idle for hours (ie no long running
processes), but "uptime" still claims that the load average
is 1.00.
I've caught a glimpse of this one or two times in the
past, but this is the first time with FreeBSD 2.1.
Any ideas as to why this might be happening?
Thanks,
Gil
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Example:
$ uptime
3:48PM up 1 day, 2:46, 5 users, load averages: 1.04, 1.05, 1.18
$ ps -agx
PID TT STAT TIME COMMAND
0 ?? DLs 0:00.00 (swapper)
1 ?? Is 0:00.05 /sbin/init --
2 ?? DL 0:00.71 (pagedaemon)
3 ?? DL 0:00.43 (vmdaemon)
4 ?? DL 0:30.67 (update)
21 ?? IWs 0:00.01 adjkerntz -i
43 ?? Ss 0:02.25 routed -q
62 ?? Ss 0:01.89 syslogd
68 ?? IWs 0:00.01 portmap
79 ?? Is 0:00.54 inetd
86 ?? Is 0:04.25 cron
88 ?? IWs 0:00.06 lpd
91 ?? Is 0:00.45 sendmail: accepting connections (sendmail)
166 ?? I 16:38.13 X :0 (XF86_Mach32)
2777 ?? R 0:01.64 telnetd
1978 p1 Is+ 0:00.50 -ksh (ksh)
225 p2 Is 0:00.63 -ksh (ksh)
1955 p2 S+ 1:25.67 ppp
2014 p3 Is+ 0:00.48 -ksh (ksh)
2778 p4 Ss 0:09.00 -ksh (ksh)
2928 p4 R+ 0:00.00 ps -agx
136 v0 IWs 0:00.59 -ksh (ksh)
165 v0 IW+ 0:00.18 xinit
167 v0 I 0:00.09 sh /home/gil/.xinitrc
177 v0 I 0:01.01 olvwm
178 v0 IW 0:00.30 olwmslave
222 v0 I 0:03.11 xterm -fn 7x14 -ls -sb
1975 v0 I 0:04.70 xterm -fn 7x14 -ls -sb
2011 v0 I 0:00.88 xterm -fn 7x14 -ls -sb
137 v1 IWs+ 0:00.05 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv1
138 v2 IWs+ 0:00.04 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv2