Load average is high: who's to blame?

Andre Costa andre.ocosta at terra.com.br
Mon Oct 9 23:40:01 UTC 2006


Hi Kam,

On Sun, 8 Oct 2006 14:35:42 -0800
"Kam Leo" <kam.leo at gmail.com> wrote:

[...]
> > I know I can use sar from systat tools to help me see something is
> > wrong, but I don't know how to see _what_ is actually causing the
> > high loads. Any hints?
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > Andre
> >
> > --
> > Andre Oliveira da Costa
> >
> 
> Run top as root to see which process is taking the most cpu time.

Thks for the tip. AFAICS top runs the same for root and for me; should
it be different?

Regards,

Andre

-- 
Andre Oliveira da Costa




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