Re: netbsd-4 vs -current web server performance

[Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%rek.tjls.com@localhost>]

On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 02:52:33PM -0700, Jeff Rizzo wrote:
> Jeff Rizzo wrote:
> > Looking at both machines, the one running 4 was at its normal load -
> > between 4 and 5 - but the machine running -current had a load of about
> > 12, and many of the httpd processes were showing as 'parked' in top, and
> > there were no idle cpus. Restarting apache on the affected machine seems
> > to have brought things back to normal - both machines have a load just
> > under 3, and all CPUs (8 per box) have ~80% idle.
> >   
> 
> 
> By way of following up to myself, I just had to pull the -current
> machine out of the rotation for unrelated reasons (forgot to install an
> important package on it), and the load dropped away *except* for three
> httpd processes:
> 
>   PID USERNAME PRI NICE   SIZE   RES STATE      TIME   WCPU    CPU COMMAND
>  4742 www       42    0    17M  314M parked/2 233:14 99.02% 99.02% httpd
>  3265 www       39    0    17M  266M parked/0 164:34 99.02% 99.02% httpd
>  8844 www       40    0    17M  298M parked/0 158:27 99.02% 99.02% httpd

Parked *and* 100% of a CPU?

That seems just wrong.

Thor