Should also mention the kern.sched may be playing a part in this too.
On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 11:20:29AM -0500, Jason Hellenthal wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 12:51:28PM -0800, Doug Barton wrote:
> > Howdy,
> >
> > Web server under heavy'ish load (7 on a 2 cpu system) running
> > 8.2-RELEASE-p4 i386 I'm seeing this:
> >
> > PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE C TIME WCPU COMMAND
> > 12 root -32 - 0K 112K WAIT 0 129:01 39.99% {swi4: clock}
> >
> > Any ideas why the clock should be taking so much cpu? HZ=100 if that
> > makes a difference ...
> >
> >
>
> Without NTPd running test the following.
>
>
> apply "/usr/bin/time -ph sleep %1" 300 600 900
>
> If the results are skewed quite a bit then your system may benefit from a
> different HZ than what you have set. I have seen systems that require a HZ of
> 350 and as weird as it sounds NTPd may be tasting the clock too much just to
> try and keep time.
>
> --
> ;s =;
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