Hi Thomas, On Thu, 16 Aug 2012, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote:
> I have a 6501-50 and installed Debian Sid onto a 32G mSATA SSD. > > I haven't done extensive testing but performance seems to be good network > wise. However when I run htop it shows a near constant 100% cpu use most of > which is tagged as kernel use but it isn't assigned to any specific kernel > threads. > > Has anyone witnessed anything like this on their 6501's? That looks like a bug in htop. I can see the same thing on Squeeze and a custom 3.2 kernel, except that it's not accounted to kernel, it's not accounted at all: 1 [******************************************************100.0%] Tasks: 93 total, 1 running 2 [##*** 5.6%] Load average: 0.43 0.65 0.74 Mem[|||||||||||||||||||||############******************306/882MB] Uptime: 2 days, 22:07:03 Swp[ 0/0MB] PID USER PRI NI VIRT RES SHR S CPU% MEM% TIME+ Command 7764 root 20 0 2552 1256 964 R 9.0 0.1 0:00.42 htop 2423 root 20 0 24380 15096 14452 S 3.0 1.7 2h46:45 pmacctd: Core Process [default] 2462 proxy 20 0 180M 155M 2256 S 1.0 17.6 57:16.83 (squid) -YC -f /etc/squid3/squid.conf 11329 dnsmasq 20 0 5312 1596 708 S 1.0 0.2 2:19.03 /usr/sbin/dnsmasq -x /var/run/dnsmasq/dnsmasq.pid -u dnsmasq -r /var/run/dnsmas 2464 root 20 0 21280 11556 10776 S 0.0 1.3 19:24.03 pmacctd: IMT Plugin [default] 2591 tomcat6 20 0 263M 39792 2020 S 0.0 4.4 14:21.65 /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/bin/java -Djava.util.logging.config.file=/var/lib/t 3531 mysql 20 0 133M 29092 1948 S 0.0 3.2 1:55.54 /usr/sbin/mysqld --basedir=/usr --datadir=/media/hdb1/mysql --user=mysql --pid- While top shows that the system is mostly idle: top - 11:43:34 up 2 days, 22:05, 2 users, load average: 0.49, 0.71, 0.76 Tasks: 115 total, 1 running, 113 sleeping, 0 stopped, 1 zombie Cpu0 : 0.0%us, 1.8%sy, 0.0%ni, 90.1%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 8.1%si, 0.0%st Cpu1 : 1.0%us, 1.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 98.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Mem: 903632k total, 884628k used, 19004k free, 176692k buffers Swap: 0k total, 0k used, 0k free, 393492k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 2423 root 20 0 24380 14m 14m S 6 1.7 166:41.26 pmacctd 7614 root 20 0 2504 1164 896 R 1 0.1 0:01.99 top 1014 nobody 20 0 6168 3716 1744 S 1 0.4 31:17.17 openvpn 719 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:31.93 flush-254:1 2462 proxy 20 0 180m 155m 2256 S 0 17.6 57:16.04 squid3 htop might be a bit broken. Cheers, Chris. -- Aptivate | http://www.aptivate.org | Phone: +44 1223 967 838 Future Business, Cam City FC, Milton Rd, Cambridge, CB4 1UY, UK Aptivate is a not-for-profit company registered in England and Wales with company number 04980791. _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech