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Name: Godgory Date: December 20, 2005 at 15:48:40 Pacific OS: FreeBSD 5.4 CPU/Ram: P4@2,8GHz/1GB DDR
Comment:
Hi, I have some cpu-time problems. Everytime I run "ps -aux" the first line it returns is: root 37 43.9 0.0 0 8 ?? WL Sun06PM 1303:46.57 [swi1: net] wherei 37 is the PID, 43.9 is the % CPU usage and so on. Question: -what is "[swi1: net]"? I know it is the process tht's eating almost half of my CPU time, but what is it and how can I (if I can) reduce hte time consumpion of this process? Alex.
Name: wollie Date: December 29, 2005 at 00:41:20 Pacific
Reply:
Hi Alex, swi1:net is a kernel/low-level process. There was/is a bug within FreeBSD5 regarding the display of date/time. Some processes are started before the kernel is able to initialize date and time and therefore these processes show an incorrect date/time. Might be this effect is an aftermath of the "buggie" behaviour, but it should not significantly affect the performance of your system.
cheers Wollie
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Response Number 2
Name: wollie Date: December 29, 2005 at 01:06:38 Pacific
Reply:
Alex, I forgot to mention: swi1:net is the system idle process (only present in FreeBSD5) and uses up the remaining CPU time. It only gets to run when nothing else runnable. For further information I'ld like you to have a look at Greg Lehey's publications.
cheers Wollie
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Response Number 3
Name: Godgory Date: December 30, 2005 at 16:11:08 Pacific
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