Re: Load 0.20 on a freshly installed idle system

From: Stavros Filargyropoulos <stav_at_stav.cc>
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2023 23:58:36 UTC
Thanks Paul.

Yeah, I used the `-SH` flags. Don't see anything suspicious.

This is is the output of the `systat`: Not sure I understand much from it

    2 users    Load  0.20  0.15  0.06                  Jan 20 15:54:53
   Mem usage:   1%Phy  0%Kmem                           VN PAGER   SWAP
PAGER
Mem:      REAL           VIRTUAL                        in   out     in
out
       Tot   Share     Tot    Share     Free   count
Act 33476K  10672K    513G   12612K   31367M   pages
All 35920K  12928K    513G   47112K                       ioflt  Interrupts
Proc:                                                     cow      34 total
  r   p   d    s   w   Csw  Trp  Sys  Int  Sof  Flt       zfod        uart0
4
              25       118    1   21    5   13    1       ozfod    10
cpu0:timer
                                                         %ozfod     9
cpu1:timer
 0.0%Sys   0.0%Intr  0.0%User  0.0%Nice  100%Idle         daefr     6
cpu2:timer
|    |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |       prcfr     4
cpu3:timer
                                                          totfr     4 xhci0
128
                                       229 dtbuf          react       ahci0
129
Namei     Name-cache   Dir-cache    619780 maxvn          pdwak
nvme0:admi
   Calls    hits   %    hits   %       805 numvn        5 pdpgs
nvme0:io0
       7       7 100                    52 frevn          intrn
nvme0:io1
                                                     355M wire
 nvme0:io2
Disks  nvd0  ada0  ada1  ada2  ada3  ada4   da0       17M act
nvme0:io3
KB/t  16.00  0.00  0.00  0.00  0.00  0.00  0.00     2880K inact
igb0:rxq0
tps       0     0     0     0     0     0     0         0 laund
igb0:rxq1
MB/s   0.01  0.00  0.00  0.00  0.00  0.00  0.00       31G free      1
igb0:rxq2
%busy     0     0     0     0     0     0     0      142M buf
igb0:rxq3

igb0:aq

And the output of `top -SH` for reference:

last pid:  1508;  load averages:  0.25,  0.22,  0.10

                                                              up 0+00:08:13
 15:57:54
131 threads:   5 running, 106 sleeping, 20 waiting
CPU:  0.1% user,  0.0% nice,  0.0% system,  0.0% interrupt, 99.9% idle
Mem: 16M Active, 3032K Inact, 355M Wired, 142M Buf, 31G Free
Swap: 3962M Total, 3962M Free

  PID USERNAME    PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE    C   TIME    WCPU COMMAND
   11 root        155 ki31     0B    64K RUN      2   8:12  99.99%
idle{idle: cpu2}
   11 root        155 ki31     0B    64K CPU3     3   8:11  99.98%
idle{idle: cpu3}
   11 root        155 ki31     0B    64K CPU0     0   8:12  99.97%
idle{idle: cpu0}
   11 root        155 ki31     0B    64K CPU1     1   8:11  99.96%
idle{idle: cpu1}
    0 root        -76    -     0B   640K -        0   0:00   0.04%
kernel{if_config_tqg_0}
 1508 stavros      20    0    14M  3812K CPU2     2   0:00   0.02% top
 1493 stavros      20    0    15M  5080K select   1   0:00   0.02% tmux
   12 root        -60    -     0B   320K WAIT     3   0:01   0.01%
intr{swi4: clock (0)}
    5 root        -16    -     0B    16K -        0   0:00   0.01%
rand_harvestq
    6 root        -16    -     0B    48K psleep   0   0:00   0.00%
pagedaemon{dom0}
 1440 stavros      20    0    21M  9440K select   3   0:00   0.00% sshd
 1404 root         20    0    18M  6988K select   2   0:00   0.00% sendmail
   15 root        -72    -     0B    96K -        3   0:00   0.00%
usb{usbus0}
   12 root        -60    -     0B   320K WAIT     2   0:00   0.00%
intr{swi4: clock (2)}
   12 root        -88    -     0B   320K WAIT     2   0:00   0.00%
intr{irq128: xhci0}
    8 root         20    -     0B   144K sdflus   3   0:00   0.00%
bufdaemon{/ worker}
   12 root        -60    -     0B   320K WAIT     1   0:00   0.00%
intr{swi4: clock (1)}
    0 root        -76    -     0B   640K -        2   0:00   0.00%
kernel{if_io_tqg_2}
    8 root        -16    -     0B   144K -        1   0:00   0.00%
bufdaemon{bufspacedaemon-0}
    9 root         16    -     0B    16K syncer   3   0:00   0.00% syncer
   12 root        -60    -     0B   320K WAIT     3   0:00   0.00%
intr{swi4: clock (3)}
    8 root        -16    -     0B   144K psleep   2   0:00   0.00%
bufdaemon{bufdaemon}
    8 root        -16    -     0B   144K -        0   0:00   0.00%
bufdaemon{bufspacedaemon-1}

Thanks,
Stavros


On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 2:03 PM Paul Procacci <pprocacci@gmail.com> wrote:

> What flags have you included with top?
>
> By default `top` doesn't show any kernel related processes.  `top -SH`  is
> useful in this respect and others flags may be useful as well.
>
> systat -vmstat
>
> ^^  Another command that I like.  Also may give you insight.
>
> Thanks,
> Paul Procacci
>
> On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 4:33 PM Stavros Filargyropoulos <stav@stav.cc>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I just installed 13.1 on a system, and the load is at 0.20 at all times,
>> although nothing is running and the CPU is 100% free.
>>
>> `ps aux` and `top` don't show anything of interest either.
>>
>> For what's worth it, the motherboard is a Supermicro X12STL-IF and the
>> CPU a Xeon 2314.
>>
>> Any ideas/commands that will help me troubleshoot this further?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Stavros
>>
>
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