On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 01:04:00AM +0200, Christopher Arnold wrote: > > > On Sun, 22 Apr 2007, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > >On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 06:14:38PM -0400, Paul wrote: > >>My system is being killed by a system cpu always between 50-70% on > >>Freebsd 6.2 with SMP enabled. Does anyone know of a quick tool to be > >>able to tell me what is making up that 50-70% for the System Cup Usage. > >> > >Uh you had the right idea but forgot to paste the relevant bits ;-) > > > >top *is* the tool for working out what processes are using your CPU. > >Although your high load average suggests that your system is just > >heavily loaded and it is expected that it will be using 100% CPU. > > > Maybe Paul havn't found "S" in top? > > Enter "S" when runing top (to show system processes) and you might find > out more about whats going on.
I wonder if his md filesystem is also using a silly option like soft updates, which was the default at some point (should be using async). Kris
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