On Sun, Apr 06, 2003 at 12:52:43AM +0100, Matthew Toseland wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 05, 2003 at 05:42:32PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Yes, anything done via sysctl is a system time, this means all I/O, 
> > scheduling, etc.
> 
> I don't think it is scheduling. I have since seen it show 21,000 context
> switches per second and only 33% of cpu time in system. And it doesn't
> seem to be I/O either, since IO-waiting would be under idle (which
> happens sometimes).

And this is only w/ Freenet running?

Any disk activity or 
> > 
> >     Scott
> > 
> > On Sat, Apr 05, 2003 at 11:31:05PM +0100, Matthew Toseland wrote:
> > > I run two freenet nodes, one of which is moderately heavily loaded, on
> > > an Athlon XP 1700+ attached to a cablemodem. They dominate my loadavg.
> > > Recently I have noticed that I am having extremely high "system" % in
> > > "top". I checked it out... first, DMA wasn't working, but that is fixed
> > > now. Then I heard that top may be miscalculating system time... after
> > > some research I found the wonderful utility "vmstat". Running vmstat 10
> > > gets something like the attached. Note the "sy" column under the "cpu"
> > > heading. Can anyone else reproduce this or is it a local problem? Does
> > > anyone have any ideas as to why freenet causes linux to use such a large
> > > amount of "system" (i.e. kernel) time? Would reschedules count as system
> > > time?
> > > 
> > > BTW, this is with Sun 1.4, using native threads.
> > > -- 
> > > Matthew Toseland
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Full time freenet hacker.
> > > http://freenetproject.org/
> > > Freenet Distribution Node (temporary) at 
> > > http://80-192-4-36.cable.ubr09.na.blueyonder.co.uk:8889/Iii0fCybKdE/
> > > ICTHUS.
> > 
> > > procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system-- ----cpu----
> > >  r  b   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   so    bi    bo   in    cs us sy id wa
> > >  4  0  75736   7304 117088 495864    2    0    72   325  410   565 20 80  0  0
> > >  5  0  75736   6768 117340 496096    3    0    25   151  386   748 31 69  0  0
> > >  3  0  75736   8232 117800 493696   17    0   104   606  539   773 29 71  0  0
> > >  3  2  75736   7628 118192 494160    0    0    44   266  401   550 13 87  0  0
> > >  6  0  75736   7104 118256 494568    0    0    41   106  370   453 10 90  0  0
> > >  3  0  75736   6588 118392 494964    0    0    38    62  377   457 13 87  0  0
> > >  4  0  75736   8248 118440 493260    0    0    33   480  365   492 22 78  0  0
> > >  6  0  75736   7860 118564 493524    0    0    26   123  390   556 27 73  0  0
> > >  4  0  75736   7624 118796 493524    0    0    26   179  385   586 21 79  0  0
> > >  7  0  75736   8464 118604 492524    0    0    40   616  420   784 28 72  0  0
> > >  5  0  75736   7688 118864 492908    4    0    42   323  405   778 19 81  0  0
> > >  7  1  75736   7160 119056 493228    1    0    31    63  362   692 20 80  0  0
> > >  9  0  75736   6188 119192 493664    2    0    34   168  395   622 19 81  0  0
> > >  9  0  75736   8216 119568 491680    8    0    34   492  393   878 45 55  0  0
> > >  4  0  75736   7616 119732 492116    0    0    26    52  354  1298 47 53  0  0
> > >  6  0  75736   6740 120144 492516    5    0    34   358  425  1174 42 58  0  0
> > >  9  0  75736   4520 120264 494588    0    0    13   454  352  1005 48 52  0  0
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Matthew Toseland
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Full time freenet hacker.
> http://freenetproject.org/
> Freenet Distribution Node (temporary) at 
> http://80-192-4-36.cable.ubr09.na.blueyonder.co.uk:8889/OHqQbstw4Bs/
> ICTHUS.



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