Subject: Re: unusual high loads in netbsd
To: None <netbsd-help@NetBSD.org>
From: Chuck Yerkes <chuck+nbsd@2004.snew.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 01/12/2004 01:19:10
Quoting Timothy Vogelsang (net@astrolink.org):
...
> Just installed NetBSD as a move (change) from FreeBSD, heard good things
> about hardware support and it appears to be a nice system. However, I've
> noticed my load is insanely high, sitting around 0.36 Avg after navigating
> myself through the file system. I've also noticed in TOP that no
> applications are running in the background that would contribute to such a
> thing, is this possibly at the core level of the system? I havn't found any
> documentation online regarding this issue, I wonder if anyone else has
> bumped into it.
Hmmm, I've got 3 windows open to machines running at loads
of 18, 30 and 50 (being 4-way, 4-way and 8-way respectively).
And 0.36 is "insanely high"!?
methinks it might just be "top" maybe a little init, packets coming
by on the net. < 0.5 is just background noise to me.