Very high loads

[Ajai Khattri <ajai_(_at_)_bway_(_dot_)_net>]

I did some Google searches on this but only saw sometone talking about bad
serial cables causing this. Could bad SCSI cables also exhibit this behavior
in OpenBSD?

My top looks like this:

load averages: 22.38, 27.27, 26.11 13:22:13
146 processes: 1 running, 144 idle, 1 stopped
CPU states:     % user,     % nice,     % system,     % interrupt,     % idle
Memory: Real: 19M/127M act/tot  Free: 350M  Swap: 8K/384M used/tot

  PID USERNAME PRI NICE  SIZE   RES STATE WAIT     TIME    CPU COMMAND  
21064 tracy      2    0  752K  752K sleep select   0:00  0.29% ipop3d
 5510 dovh       2    0  760K  824K sleep select   0:00  0.10% ipop3d
 8509 root       2    0  388K  344K sleep select  68:41  0.05% timed  
20272 nboemio   -5    0  876K  876K sleep biowai   0:00  0.05% imapd
 7636 root       2    0   19M   19M idle  select  69:03  0.00% radiusd.bin    
 7817 root       2    0   68K  272K sleep select  11:34  0.00% inetd
 6112 root       2    0 1676K 1904K sleep select   2:13  0.00% httpd
  664 root      10    0   88K   16K sleep nfsidl   1:38  0.00% nfsiod
13336 cordones   3    0 5484K 5956K idle  ttyin    1:18  0.00% elm
19353 root       2    0  784K  540K sleep select   1:11  0.00% sendmail
10033 root       2    0 8080K 2168K idle  netcon   0:35  0.00% perl
 1330 root      10    0   88K   16K sleep nfsidl   0:30  0.00% nfsiod
13190 cordones   2    0  600K  992K idle  select   0:27  0.00% screen-3.9.5
22992 root      10    0  232K  336K sleep nanosl   0:22  0.00% cron
    1 root      10    0  320K  196K sleep wait     0:18  0.00% init

This is quite a high load for this server. But its not really running a lot
of processes.

I did a vmstat 5 3 and got this:

 procs   memory     page                    disks         faults   cpu
  r b w   avm   fre  flt  re  pi  po  fr  sr w0 s0 s1 s2   in   sy  cs us sy id
  124 0487296357656 1338 176  38   0   0   0 18  1 11 23  539 2610 213  7 10 83
  017 0437700359244  426  46  26   0   0   0 14  1  0 30  455 2715 173 10  7 83
  015 0410804359192  582  67  42   0   0   0 16  0  0 24  405 1325 116  4  6 90

Im not sure if these are normal values or not?

My drives are:

dev/wd0a on / type ffs (local)
/dev/sd0d on /var type ffs (local, nodev, nosuid)
/dev/sd1e on /var/log type ffs (local, nodev, noexec)
/dev/sd3a on /var/mail type ffs (local, nodev, noexec)
/dev/sd1d on /var/spool type ffs (local, nodev, noexec)
/dev/wd0d on /var/tmp type ffs (local, noexec)
/dev/wd0f on /usr type ffs (local)
/dev/sd2a on /usr/people type ffs (local, nodev, nosuid)
server:/net/web on /net/web type nfs (nodev, noexec, v3, udp, timeo=100)


Anyone come across similar problems?

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