Here is what my command line shows
Thanks for the reply...
here is what the telnet session shows
# uptime
19:45:38 up 2:45, load average: 1.00, 1.00, 0.94
# ps
PID Uid VmSize Stat Command
1 root 372 S init
2 root SW [ksoftirqd/0]
3 root SW< [desched/0]
4 root SW< [events/0]
5 root SW< [khelper]
6 root SW< [kthread]
7 root SW< [kblockd/0]
8 root SW [pdflush]
9 root SW [pdflush]
11 root SW< [aio/0]
10 root SW [kswapd0]
13 root SW [mtdblockd]
12 root SW [kseriod]
14 root SW< [IRQ 8]
15 root SWN [jffs2_gcd_mtd0]
16 root SW< [IRQ 15]
56 root SW< [IRQ 35]
62 root 392 S udhcpc -n -p /var/run/udhcpc.esw0.pid -i esw0
68 root 364 S /sbin/syslogd -n -m 0
69 root 336 S /sbin/klogd -n
70 root 492 S -sh
76 root 316 S telnetd
99 root SW< [IRQ 45]
108 root 548 S -sh
189 root 552 S -sh
217 root 376 R ps
# top
Mem: 5808K used, 8652K free, 0K shrd, 0K buff, 1364K cached
Load average: 1.00 1.00 0.94 (Status: S=sleeping R=running, W=waiting)
PID USER STATUS RSS PPID %CPU %MEM COMMAND
220 root R 388 189 1.9 2.6 top
189 root S 552 76 0.0 3.8 sh
108 root S 548 76 0.0 3.7 sh
70 root S 492 1 0.0 3.3 sh
62 root S 392 1 0.0 2.6 udhcpc
1 root S 372 0 0.0 2.5 init
68 root S 364 1 0.0 2.5 syslogd
69 root S 336 1 0.0 2.3 klogd
76 root S 316 1 0.0 2.1 telnetd
2 root SW 0 1 0.0 0.0 ksoftirqd/0
15 root SWN 0 1 0.0 0.0 jffs2_gcd_mtd0
3 root SW< 0 1 0.0 0.0 desched/0
11 root SW< 0 6 0.0 0.0 aio/0
4 root SW< 0 1 0.0 0.0 events/0
14 root SW< 0 6 0.0 0.0 IRQ 8
16 root SW< 0 6 0.0 0.0 IRQ 15
56 root SW< 0 6 0.0 0.0 IRQ 35
5 root SW< 0 1 0.0 0.0 khelper
6 root SW< 0 1 0.0 0.0 kthread
7 root SW< 0 6 0.0 0.0 kblockd/0
8 root SW 0 6 0.0 0.0 pdflush
There are no 'D' threads. What bothers me is that it slowly creeps up to
1.00 when the system starts or resets..so there is something going on...
i would appreciate any help or insights...
regards
manjee
Ralf Baechle wrote:
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 01:51:29PM -0600, Mandeep Ahuja wrote:
I have an embedded system thats has mips processor. I recently updated
to Kernel 2.6.10 from 2.4.17.
I was able to run the kernel and mount the jffs2 file system.
When the system starts the load average is low like 0.02 but, after
about 2 minutes it becomes 1.00 and as long as the system is idle it
stays at 1.00. If the system is not idle it would go up to like 1.21 but
eventually come down to 1.00 but NEVER goes below 1.
There is no application running on the system. Only the busybox. Top
shows all processes sleeping.
this is the version of kernel
Linux version 2.6.10_dev-malta-mips2_fp_len (gcc version 3.4.6)
Is there something holding the processor continuously? does anyone have
any idea whats going on?.
I need to figure this one out before I start my application on it!.
Usually the reason would be something like a process stuck in
noninterruptible sleep state. That's status "D" in the ps output. Such
a process can't be killed and generally if a process is in this state for
extended time this would be considered a bug.
Ralf
