Hi David,

On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 10:52 PM, Dr. David
Kirkby<david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote:
>
> Running 'make test' I'm seeing a load average of 13 on my dual processor
> Sun, which it is not exactly happy about!
>
>
> Here's the output from prstat
>
>    PID USERNAME  SIZE   RSS STATE  PRI NICE      TIME  CPU PROCESS/NLWP
>  16735 drkirkby   30M   25M run     45    0   0:37:43  11% maxima/1
>  28928 drkirkby   34M   29M run     35    0   0:27:01 8.4% maxima/1
>   8183 drkirkby  105M   62M run     45    0   0:00:03 4.8% python/1
>      1 root     2896K 1760K run     49    0   0:05:22 1.9% init/1
>   7724 drkirkby  216M  147M sleep   59    0   0:17:48 1.6% firefox-bin/8
>   4746 drkirkby  147M   93M sleep   54    0   0:03:19 1.0% python/1
>  22470 drkirkby  167M  122M run     58    0   0:00:49 0.8% python/1
>    691 drkirkby  203M   80M sleep   59    0   0:54:05 0.6% Xsun/1
>    913 drkirkby  140M   42M sleep   59    0   0:03:37 0.5% gnome-terminal/2
>   8100 drkirkby 8144K 5864K sleep   59    0   0:00:00 0.4% python/1
>  11708 drkirkby 3504K 2776K cpu0    39    0   0:00:00 0.1% prstat/1
>   1850 drkirkby   20M   13M sleep   49    0   0:04:24 0.0% sunpcbinary/3
>    777 noaccess  210M  116M sleep   59    0   0:02:08 0.0% java/18
>    911 drkirkby   68M 5680K sleep   49    0   0:01:51 0.0%
> gnome-netstatus/1
>    945 drkirkby  236M   75M sleep   49    0   0:03:07 0.0% java/18
> Total: 129 processes, 326 lwps, load averages: 12.59, 12.73, 12.24
>
> Has this been seen before? I noticed an earlier sage used up tons of CPU
> time. No particularly process seems to be using a lot, but I think
> processes are starting and stopping quickly.

Sometimes when I do "make test" and then press control-C before it
finishes, I would get runaway processes that just keeps on computing
for hours. This requires a manual kill.

-- 
Regards
Minh Van Nguyen

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