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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