On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 01:54:13PM -0700, Yuri wrote: > I have STABLE-71 machine with 2GB memory and single 2GHz AMD3200 CPU. > > There is one large active process slowly growing in memory from 500MB to > 1300MB, not reading or writing any files. > There are many dormant processes almost not running at all. > Swap size remains constant (185MB). Total physical memory used remains > 2GB (whole memory used). > > ps shows that the active process only takes 15-18% CPU. But total CPU > consumption on the machine is 100% (user). > > Since the active process grows but swap+physical memory doesn't grow I > assume that OS pushes out other processes code since it's unchanged on > disk. > > Why such operation is so expensive and takes 80-85% CPU? > Why total of all user processes CPU consumption is ~20% but total > CPU(user) consumption shows as 100%? Shouldn't they be the same.
Regarding the "memory bloat", what field in top(1) are you basing this on? -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
