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04-07-2014

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Very high nice percentage in top command

Hello Folks,

Recently our FreeBSD 7.1 i386 system became very sluggish.
Nothing much is happening over there & whatever is running takes eternity to complete.

All the troubleshooting hinted towards a very high nice percentage.
Can that be the culprit?
Pasting snippets of top command, please advice whether it's a cause of concern & what are the possible remedies. Idle percentage mentions 0.

Code:

top
last pid: 32075;  load averages:  4.11,  4.18,  4.38                                                                                                       up 17+21:11:14  23:11:55
136 processes: 5 running, 131 sleeping
CPU:  0.4% user, 85.9% nice, 11.7% system,  2.0% interrupt,  0.0% idle
Mem: 811M Active, 1767M Inact, 195M Wired, 92M Cache, 112M Buf, 129M Free
Swap: 16G Total, 480K Used, 16G Free

Thanks for the support.

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uptime

UPTIME(1)							Linux User's Manual							 UPTIME(1)

NAME

       uptime - Tell how long the system has been running.

SYNOPSIS

       uptime
       uptime [-V]

DESCRIPTION

       uptime  gives  a one line display of the following information.	The current time, how long the system has been running, how many users are
       currently logged on, and the system load averages for the past 1, 5, and 15 minutes.

       This is the same information contained in the header line displayed by w(1).

       System load averages is the average number of processes that are either in a runnable or uninterruptable state.	A process  in  a  runnable
       state  is either using the CPU or waiting to use the CPU. A process in uninterruptable state is waiting for some I/O access, eg waiting for
       disk.  The averages are taken over the three time intervals.  Load averages are not normalized for the number of CPUs in  a  system,  so  a
       load average of 1 means a single CPU system is loaded all the time while on a 4 CPU system it means it was idle 75% of the time.

FILES

       /var/run/utmp
	      information about who is currently logged on

       /proc  process information

AUTHORS

       uptime was written by Larry Greenfield <greenfie@gauss.rutgers.edu> and Michael K. Johnson <johnsonm@sunsite.unc.edu>.

       Please send bug reports to <albert@users.sf.net>

SEE ALSO

       ps(1), top(1), utmp(5), w(1)

Cohesive Systems						    26 Jan 1993 							 UPTIME(1)