Hi all,
system: ES45, 4cpu, 8GB, 5.1B PK2 
I'm getting very slow cpu rsponse to, in particular,
network-related requests. So far, all I can see that is
abnormal is a very high 'sys int' count in vmstat:
alf1_tsh> vmstat 1
Virtual Memory Statistics: (pagesize = 8192)
  procs      memory        pages                            intr        cpu
  r   w   u  act free wire fault  cow zero react  pin pout  in   sy  cs us sy id
 14  1K  47 338K 576K 104K   30G 259M 692M  318K 318M  85K 671 367K  4K 28  8 63
 13  1K  49 341K 573K 104K   470   92  111     0  130    0  1K  4M  2K 49 51  0
 16  1K  50 344K 570K 104K   269   89   76     0  103    0  1K  5M  2K 50 50  0
The 5M system calls a second sometimes reaches 8M and is normally
between 1 and 5K.
Is there some way I can find the process making these system calls?
So far, looking at the ps options:
 minflt, majflt, pagein, nsignals, inblock, oublock
has revealed nothing.
Network activity seems normal:
alf1_tsh> /usr/sbin/ifconfig -a
alt0: flags=202c63<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,MULTICAST,SIMPLEX,PFCOPYALL,MULTINET>
     inet 10.1.0.1 netmask ff800000 broadcast 10.127.255.255 ipmtu 1500 
     inet 131.111.85.78 netmask ffff0000 broadcast 131.111.255.255 ipmtu 1500 
lo0: flags=100c89<UP,LOOPBACK,NOARP,MULTICAST,SIMPLEX,NOCHECKSUM>
     inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000 ipmtu 4096 
sl0: flags=10<POINTOPOINT>
tu0: flags=c63<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,MULTICAST,SIMPLEX>
tu1: flags=c63<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,MULTICAST,SIMPLEX>
tu2: flags=c63<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,MULTICAST,SIMPLEX>
tun0: flags=80<NOARP>
tun1: flags=80<NOARP>
alf1_tsh> /usr/sbin/netstat -i 1
   input    (alt0)    output            input   (Total)    output
 packets  errs  packets  errs colls   packets  errs  packets  errs colls
  149881     0    88347     0     0  19347340     0 239370085 220084279     0
     367     0      375     0     0       367     0      417    42     0
     497     0      360     0     0       497     0      402    42     0
     360     0      387     0     0       360     0      429    42     0
     302     0      319     0     0       302     0      361    42     0
     304     0      335     0     0       304     0      377    42     0
     272     0      272     0     0       272     0      314    42     0
Any ideas anyone?
Cheers,
Terry
Received on Tue Jan 20 2004 - 11:31:07 NZDT