Extreme Slowdown 3054

Peter T. Breuer They vary, Peter. On my RHEL 3 ES system, top looks like this:

08:02:03 up 35 days, 16:18, 3 users, load average: 4.24, 4.28, 4.20 129 processes: 122 sleeping, 5 running, 2 zombie, 0 stopped CPU states: cpu user nice system irq softirq iowait idle total 1.1% 97.9% 0.7% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% cpu00 0.1% 98.6% 1.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% cpu01 0.7% 98.4% 0.7% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% cpu02 0.1% 98.6% 0.9% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1% cpu03 3.3% 96.0% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1% Mem: 4100860k av, 4001896k used, 98964k free, 0k shrd, 140492k buff 1507272k actv, 1802976k ind, 67136k inc Swap: 8193076k av, 3076k used, 8190000k free 3358208k cached

PID PPID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM CTIME COMMAND 9350 9348 boinc 39 19 46864 45M 4000 R N 24.7 1.1 267:13 hadsm3um4.04i

But on my RHL 9 system it looks like this:

08:04:18 up 8 days, 22:59, 1 user, load average: 2.06, 2.01, 2.00 68 processes: 64 sleeping, 4 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU0 states: 100.0% user 0.0% system 100.0% nice 0.0% iowait 0.0% idle CPU1 states: 99.2% user 0.1% system 98.1% nice 0.0% iowait 0.0% idle Mem: 513228k av, 502032k used, 11196k free, 0k shrd, 31472k buff 333592k actv, 0k ind, 11128k inc Swap: 1052216k av, 72088k used, 980128k free 304564k cached

PID PPID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM CTIME COMMAND 1190 856 boinc 39 19 42956 41M 332 R N 99.9 8.3 270:35 mfoldB1254.22

When I was running Fedora Core 2, IIRC, those fields were all two characters with a colon afterwards.

-- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. V PGP-Key: 9A2FC99A Registered Machine 241939. ^^-^^ 08:00:00 up 35 days, 16:16, 3 users, load average: 4.43, 4.29, 4.20