Hi, I’ve noticed this already back in June: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-xen/2013-June/001639.html
Nothing really came out of the discussion there, but it doesn’t really seem worrying or have much an impact on performance though. Jeroen. On 30 Jan 2014, at 15:10, Karl Pielorz <kpielorz_...@tdx.co.uk> wrote: > > I've just installed a couple of FreeBSD 10-R instances on our Xen pool. The > load averages on these machines seems to run higher for an idle box, than > FreeBSD 9.x did > > e.g. 10.0-R (amd64 GENERIC): > > last pid: 4219; load averages: 0.31, 0.23, 0.12 up 0+00:07:45 14:04:08 > 15 processes: 1 running, 14 sleeping > CPU: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.0% system, 0.0% interrupt, 100% idle > Mem: 16M Active, 15M Inact, 44M Wired, 20M Buf, 1893M Free > Swap: 2046M Total, 2046M Free > > > A 9.2-STABLE (amd64 XENHVM) instance on the same XenServer: > > last pid: 76440; load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 up 2+15:07:27 14:05:10 > 22 processes: 1 running, 21 sleeping > CPU: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.0% system, 0.0% interrupt, 100% idle > Mem: 13M Active, 128M Inact, 91M Wired, 59M Buf, 237M Free > Swap: 494M Total, 494M Free > > > Both have xe-guest-utilities installed. > > The second box is actually technically busier than the first (as it's routing > traffic between it's interfaces - admittedly, not much). > > But the load average on 10.0-R never settles to zero (like it did for 9.x) > > Just a bit confused as to if the user, nice, system and interrupt times are > zero - how can the LA be >0? > > Anyone else noticed this? - I know an LA of 0.31 isn't the end of the world - > but it's a bit of a jump on 0.00... > > -Karl > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-xen@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-xen > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-xen-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" _______________________________________________ freebsd-xen@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-xen To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-xen-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"