High loads...

[Bjorn Hellqvist]

Hi,

I have a real problems with load...

last pid:  3764;  load averages: 95.78, 29.30, 11.191 
up 0+00:35:00  16:08:58
284 processes: 36 running, 247 sleeping, 1 lock
CPU states:  0.7% user,  2.8% nice, 92.0% system,  1.7% interrupt,  2.8% 
idle
Mem: 127M Active, 1578M Inact, 174M Wired, 53M Cache, 101M Buf, 70M Free
Swap: 4096M Total, 4096M Free

This is all done from one client that abuses the system. (ie: me). This is 
still a testsetup, so I am the only one that uses this system.

What I do is "catching up" in a more abusive way. In old and trusted 
netscape messanger I go into a heavy poplulated group and hold down 'T' to 
mark threads read. After awhile the loads gets real high.

Is it something I have missed?

System info:
6.2-STABLE FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #0: Tue Feb  6 14:31:29 CET 2007
InterNetNews server INN 2.4.4 (20070206 snapshot)
Compaq DL380G3 w. SA6404.

parts of dmesg:
CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.40GHz (2385.86-MHz 686-class CPU)
   Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0xf29  Stepping = 9
   Features=0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE>
   Features2=0x4400<CNTX-ID,<b14>>
   Logical CPUs per core: 2
real memory  = 2147459072 (2047 MB)
avail memory = 2094055424 (1997 MB)
ACPI APIC Table: <COMPAQ 00000083>
FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 2 CPUs
  cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID:  0
  cpu1 (AP): APIC ID:  6

/Bjorn