Hi,
Today I've installed a 10.0 FreeBSD in our VMware environment, just checking things out. I've chosen an install on ZFS (one disk, so 'striping'), with encryption. The installation went fine and the machine boots fine. When I login, and run top, this puzzles me:
So, it's 100% idle. Nothing really 'running', but still the load average values are far from zero. I've seen this before in old versions like 6.x when running in VMware, but I haven't seen it since the last 9.x (9.2) version of FreeBSD, until now. Should I worry about this?
Today I've installed a 10.0 FreeBSD in our VMware environment, just checking things out. I've chosen an install on ZFS (one disk, so 'striping'), with encryption. The installation went fine and the machine boots fine. When I login, and run top, this puzzles me:
Code:
last pid: 1143; load averages: 0.20, 0.18, 0.19 up 0+00:18:59 13:33:36
18 processes: 1 running, 17 sleeping
CPU: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.0% system, 0.0% interrupt, 100% idle
Mem: 14M Active, 14M Inact, 61M Wired, 884M Free
ARC: 23M Total, 6974K MFU, 14M MRU, 32K Anon, 262K Header, 1204K Other
Swap: 1024M Total, 1024M Free
PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU COMMAND
1137 root 1 20 0 19768K 2660K RUN 0:00 0.00% top
1114 root 1 20 0 86084K 6896K select 0:00 0.00% sshd
1117 root 1 20 0 23492K 3596K pause 0:00 0.00% csh
1057 root 1 20 0 23980K 5332K select 0:00 0.00% sendmail
1101 root 1 24 0 47656K 2600K wait 0:00 0.00% login
1109 root 1 23 0 23492K 3224K ttyin 0:00 0.00% csh
899 root 1 20 0 14424K 1976K select 0:00 0.00% syslogd
1064 root 1 20 0 16520K 2076K nanslp 0:00 0.00% cron
1102 root 1 52 0 14420K 1880K ttyin 0:00 0.00% getty
1108 root 1 52 0 14420K 1880K ttyin 0:00 0.00% getty
1029 root 1 20 0 60816K 6076K select 0:00 0.00% sshd
1106 root 1 52 0 14420K 1880K ttyin 0:00 0.00% getty
1103 root 1 52 0 14420K 1880K ttyin 0:00 0.00% getty
1105 root 1 52 0 14420K 1880K ttyin 0:00 0.00% getty
1104 root 1 52 0 14420K 1880K ttyin 0:00 0.00% getty
1107 root 1 52 0 14420K 1880K ttyin 0:00 0.00% getty
780 root 1 20 0 13584K 4532K select 0:00 0.00% devd
1060 smmsp 1 52 0 23980K 4968K pause 0:00 0.00% sendmail
So, it's 100% idle. Nothing really 'running', but still the load average values are far from zero. I've seen this before in old versions like 6.x when running in VMware, but I haven't seen it since the last 9.x (9.2) version of FreeBSD, until now. Should I worry about this?