You mean, besides being quite huge? I took a quick look at it, but other than getting a headache by doing that, my limited unix skills unfortunately fail me.

I've zipped it an attached it to this mail, maybe someone can get anything out of it...

Regards,
Gernot


Am 20.10.11 20:17, schrieb Michael Schuster:
Gernot,

is there anything suspicious in /var/adm/messages?

Michael

On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 20:07, Michael Stapleton
<michael.staple...@techsologic.com>  wrote:
That rules out userland.

Sched tells me that it is not a user process. If kernel code is
executing on a cpu, tools will report the sched process. The count was
how many times the process was taken off the CPU while dtrace was
running.



Lets see what kernel code is running the most:

#dtrace -n 'sched:::off-cpu { @[stack()]=count()}'

#dtrace -n 'profile-1001 { @[stack()] = count() }'



On Thu, 2011-10-20 at 19:52 +0200, Gernot Wolf wrote:

Yeah, I've been able to run this diagnostics on another OI box (at my
office, so much for OI not being used in production ;)), and noticed
that there were several values that were quite different. I just don't
have any idea on the meaning of this figures...

Anyway, here are the results of the dtrace command (I executed the
command twice, hence two result sets):

gernot@tintenfass:~# dtrace -n 'sched:::off-cpu { @[execname]=count()}'
dtrace: description 'sched:::off-cpu ' matched 3 probes
^C

    ipmgmtd                                                           1
    gconfd-2                                                          2
    gnome-settings-d                                                  2
    idmapd                                                            2
    inetd                                                             2
    miniserv.pl                                                       2
    netcfgd                                                           2
    nscd                                                              2
    ospm-applet                                                       2
    ssh-agent                                                         2
    sshd                                                              2
    svc.startd                                                        2
    intrd                                                             3
    afpd                                                              4
    mdnsd                                                             4
    gnome-power-mana                                                  5
    clock-applet                                                      7
    sendmail                                                          7
    xscreensaver                                                      7
    fmd                                                               9
    fsflush                                                          11
    ntpd                                                             11
    updatemanagernot                                                 13
    isapython2.6                                                     14
    devfsadm                                                         20
    gnome-terminal                                                   20
    dtrace                                                           23
    mixer_applet2                                                    25
    smbd                                                             39
    nwam-manager                                                     60
    svc.configd                                                      79
    Xorg                                                            100
    sched                                                        394078

gernot@tintenfass:~# dtrace -n 'sched:::off-cpu { @[execname]=count()}'
dtrace: description 'sched:::off-cpu ' matched 3 probes
^C

    automountd                                                        1
    ipmgmtd                                                           1
    idmapd                                                            2
    in.routed                                                         2
    init                                                              2
    miniserv.pl                                                       2
    netcfgd                                                           2
    ssh-agent                                                         2
    sshd                                                              2
    svc.startd                                                        2
    fmd                                                               3
    hald                                                              3
    inetd                                                             3
    intrd                                                             3
    hald-addon-acpi                                                   4
    nscd                                                              4
    gnome-power-mana                                                  5
    sendmail                                                          5
    mdnsd                                                             6
    devfsadm                                                          8
    xscreensaver                                                      9
    fsflush                                                          10
    ntpd                                                             14
    updatemanagernot                                                 16
    mixer_applet2                                                    21
    isapython2.6                                                     22
    dtrace                                                           24
    gnome-terminal                                                   24
    smbd                                                             39
    nwam-manager                                                     58
    zpool-rpool                                                      65
    svc.configd                                                      79
    Xorg                                                             82
    sched                                                        369939

So, quite obviously there is one executable standing out here, "sched",
now what's the meaning of this figures?

Regards,
Gernot Wolf


Am 20.10.11 19:22, schrieb Michael Stapleton:
Hi Gernot,

You have a high context switch rate.

try
#dtrace -n 'sched:::off-cpu { @[execname]=count()}'

For a few seconds to see if you can get the name of and executable.

Mike
On Thu, 2011-10-20 at 18:44 +0200, Gernot Wolf wrote:

Hello all,

I have a machine here at my home running OpenIndiana oi_151a, which
serves as a NAS on my home network. The original install was OpenSolaris
2009.6 which was later upgraded to snv_134b, and recently to oi_151a.

So far this OSOL (now OI) box has performed excellently, with one major
exception: Sometimes, after a reboot, the cpu load was about 50-60%,
although the system was doing nothing. Until recently, another reboot
solved the issue.

This does not work any longer. The system has always a cpu load of
50-60% when idle (and higher of course when there is actually some work
to do).

I've already googled the symptoms. This didn't turn up very much useful
info, and the few things I found didn't apply to my problem. Most
noticably was this problem which could be solved by disabling cpupm in
/etc/power.conf, but trying that didn't show any effect on my system.

So I'm finally out of my depth. I have to admit that my knowledge of
Unix is superficial at best, so I decided to try looking for help here.

I've run several diagnostic commands like top, powertop, lockstat etc.
and attached the results to this email (I've zipped the results of kstat
because they were>1MB).

One important thing is that when I boot into the oi_151a live dvd
instead of booting into the installed system, I also get the high cpu
load. I mention this because I have installed several things on my OI
box like vsftpd, svn, netstat etc. I first thought that this problem
might be caused by some of this extra stuff, but getting the same system
when booting the live dvd ruled that out (I think).

The machine is a custom build medium tower:
S-775 Intel DG965WHMKR ATX mainbord
Intel Core 2 Duo E4300 CPU 1.8GHz
1x IDE DVD recorder
1x IDE HD 200GB (serves as system drive)
6x SATA II 1.5TB HD (configured as zfs raidz2 array)

I have to solve this problem. Although the system runs fine and
absolutely serves it's purpose, having the cpu at 50-60% load constantly
is a waste of energy and surely a rather unhealthy stress on the hardware.

Anyone any ideas...?

Regards,
Gernot Wolf
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