Yes there seem to be load on the CPU but most of the time its on the range 79-98% and yet my load average would jump to 40-50+. This machine is an P3 1.2Ghz and I run listserv which uses sendmail. And sendmail processes only eats up 0.1% of the CPU all the time.
Thanks.
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 11:20:46 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Re: [rhn-users] system load average and top
From: "Mr.Anderson" <mr anderson comsystems net>
To: <rhn-users redhat com>
Reply-To: rhn-users redhat com
>
> 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:
'p!
s aux |more'
to see current processes with userid runn!
ing it. Look carefully at the
list and see if there's any process you don't recognize.
Mr.Anderson