[OpenIndiana-discuss] what is this computer doing ?

[Marc Lobelle]

Hello,

My openindiana server has 4 cores. On the system monitor, the average 
load of each core is around 60%, even when the machine does not do anything

Here is a snapshot of top. The top process is the gam-server (what does 
it do? I do not touch the disks)

and the two active processes, gam_server and imapd eat each around 1/4th 
of a core

Does anybody understand what is happening ?

Thanks

Marc

load averages:  2.33,  2.55,  2.95;               up 27+03:51:14       
11:53:03
167 processes: 164 sleeping, 3 on cpu
CPU states: 43.0% idle, 49.7% user,  7.3% kernel,  0.0% iowait, 0.0% swap
Kernel: 3285 ctxsw, 382 trap, 3990 intr, 33085 syscall, 1 flt, 4 pgin
Memory: 32G phys mem, 8243M free mem, 4072M total swap, 2534M free swap
ARC:    12G Total, 9593M MRU, 1775M MFU, 1308K Anon, 193M Header, 494M Other
         10G Compressed, 11G Uncompressed, 1.11:1 Ratio, 1236M Overhead

    PID     USERNAME NLWP PRI NICE  SIZE       RES     STATE TIME      
CPU         COMMAND
   1423     ml              1       0    0       22M       19M cpu/2  
206.3H     24.95%     gam_server
   5144     ml              1       0    0     5320K     4184K cpu/0   
17.9H     23.62%     imapd
  10784    ml              5      11    0      137M     84M sleep  
652:51      3.92%       mate-system-mon
   2713     ml            231    11    0     4476M    2806M sleep 17.8H  
     1.95%       thunderbird
    684      ml              3      21    0      126M      56M sleep   
35.5H      1.11%      Xorg