Re: unidentified system load

2010-04-05 Thread Tony Sarendal
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Tony Sarendal wrote: > > > On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 10:41 AM, Mark Kettenis > wrote: > >> It's worth trying to disable ichiic(4). >> > > Cheers, giving it a go on a few of them. > > Over a week running with i386 4.6 and -current with ichiic(4) disabled. The 6 boxe

Re: unidentified system load

2010-03-28 Thread Tony Sarendal
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 10:41 AM, Mark Kettenis wrote: > It's worth trying to disable ichiic(4). > Cheers, giving it a go on a few of them. /Tony

Re: unidentified system load

2010-03-28 Thread Mark Kettenis
It's worth trying to disable ichiic(4).

Re: unidentified system load

2010-03-28 Thread Tony Sarendal
Is there a way to see where the cpu time is spent when it isn't in userland ? I took one of our affected systems and killed everything on it as well as disabling pf. bmr1.brh# ps aux USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND root 1 0.0 0.0 324 296 ??

Re: unidentified system load

2010-03-27 Thread Tony Sarendal
> I'd be looking at the state of your mbufs as well. man netstat > > Thanks Aaron, these systems are currently running with load very low. From one of the boxes with the problem: bmr1.mlt# uptime 11:33AM up 13 days, 1:04, 1 user, load averages: 0.15, 0.17, 0.11 bmr1.mlt# netstat -m 102 mbufs i

Re: unidentified system load

2010-03-27 Thread Aaron Mason
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 7:56 PM, Tony Sarendal wrote: > I'm using supermicro boxes (dmesg below) as vpn routers. IPsec+gre+bgp. > > After a few days uptime the boxes start reporting 8% system cpu, and at the > same time > they become unresponsive on the network approx every 10 seconds. > Any idea

unidentified system load

2010-03-27 Thread Tony Sarendal
I'm using supermicro boxes (dmesg below) as vpn routers. IPsec+gre+bgp. After a few days uptime the boxes start reporting 8% system cpu, and at the same time they become unresponsive on the network approx every 10 seconds. Any idea on how to find the reason for this is appreciated. I have around 2