Re: stable/10: high load average when box is idle

2015-12-26 Thread Alexander Motin
On 26.12.2015 17:09, Ian Smith wrote: > Current hypothesis: some variable/s are getting improperly initialised > at boot, but are (somehow?) getting properly re-initialised on changing > cpuset to 1 then back to 2 cpus - though I've no idea how, or by what. While this is interesting hypothesis,

Re: stable/10: high load average when box is idle

2015-12-26 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 4 Nov 2015 14:31:35 +, Tom Evans wrote: > On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 5:47 PM, Ian Smith wrote: > > Like yourself, I think this is far from 'cosmetic' as is oft suggested, > > especially in some fairly ill-informed forum posts but also various list > > posts. I've been watching load av

Re: stable/10: high load average when box is idle

2015-11-04 Thread Tom Evans via freebsd-stable
On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 5:47 PM, Ian Smith wrote: > Like yourself, I think this is far from 'cosmetic' as is oft suggested, > especially in some fairly ill-informed forum posts but also various list > posts. I've been watching load averages since OS/2 through FreeBSD 2.2 > till present and some Li

Re: stable/10: high load average when box is idle

2015-11-03 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 26 Oct 2015 22:05:08 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > (I am not subscribed to the mailing list, please keep me CC'd) > > Issue: a stable/10 system that has an abnormally high load average (e.g. > 0.15, but may be higher depending on other variables which I can't > account for) when th

Re: stable/10: high load average when box is idle

2015-10-29 Thread Miroslav Lachman
Miroslav Lachman wrote on 10/29/2015 12:47: Jeremy Chadwick wrote on 10/29/2015 11:09: [...] I've seen it on both bare-metal and VMs. Please see c#8 in the ticket; there's an itemised list of where I've seen it, but I'm sure it's not limited to just those. OK, I have read your c#8 and did

Re: stable/10: high load average when box is idle

2015-10-29 Thread Miroslav Lachman
Jeremy Chadwick wrote on 10/29/2015 11:09: On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 11:00:32AM +0100, Miroslav Lachman wrote: Jeremy Chadwick wrote on 10/27/2015 06:05: (I am not subscribed to the mailing list, please keep me CC'd) Issue: a stable/10 system that has an abnormally high load average (e.g. 0.15,

Re: stable/10: high load average when box is idle

2015-10-29 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 11:00:32AM +0100, Miroslav Lachman wrote: > Jeremy Chadwick wrote on 10/27/2015 06:05: > >(I am not subscribed to the mailing list, please keep me CC'd) > > > >Issue: a stable/10 system that has an abnormally high load average (e.g. > >0.15, but may be higher depending on ot

Re: stable/10: high load average when box is idle

2015-10-29 Thread Miroslav Lachman
Jeremy Chadwick wrote on 10/27/2015 06:05: (I am not subscribed to the mailing list, please keep me CC'd) Issue: a stable/10 system that has an abnormally high load average (e.g. 0.15, but may be higher depending on other variables which I can't account for) when the machine is definitely idle (

stable/10: high load average when box is idle

2015-10-26 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
(I am not subscribed to the mailing list, please keep me CC'd) Issue: a stable/10 system that has an abnormally high load average (e.g. 0.15, but may be higher depending on other variables which I can't account for) when the machine is definitely idle (i.e. cannot be traced to high interrupt usage