Re: [rhn-users] system load average and top

["Mr.Anderson" <mr anderson comsystems net>]

>
> Hi, I'm currently having some weird readings on my machine. Here's the
> output of top.
>
> 10:54am  up 42 days, 14:28,  2 users,  load average: 15.73, 14.17, 16.45
> 284 processes: 279 sleeping, 5 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
> CPU states:  5.9% user, 14.1% system,  0.0% nice, 79.9% idle
> Mem:   514696K av,  473584K used,   41112K free,       0K shrd,   91628K
> buff Swap: 1048088K av,   25280K used, 1022808K free       104152K
> cached
>
> Does this makes sense? The CPU has no load and yet the load average is
> high? Any ideas?
>
> Thanks for any info.
>
>
>
> Deks

Umm...What do you mean "the CPU has no load"? It's at 20% used (79.9%
idle). 20% usage is a lot depending on your CPU Mhz. If CPU is at 20%
used, and the load average is at 15% at first glance seems ok. So a quick
guess without looking at the processes is it's normal.

Do you notice any weird processes running? Type:

'ps aux |more'

to see current processes with userid running it. Look carefully at the
list and see if there's any process you don't recognize.

Mr.Anderson