High load average (FC5)

[Arthur Pemberton]

On 4/14/06, Jeffrey Ross <jeff at bubble.org> wrote:
>
> noticed this morning that the system is running with a reported load
> average of: 7.15, 7.26, 7.16
>
> not sure what's causing it to be so high.  iirc load average is based
> upon processes waiting for I/O.  This machine should be pretty much
> quiet at the moment.
>
> How can I figure out what's jacking the load average up?
>
> TIA, Jeff
>
> Have you tried using the `top` command? Or if you're in KDE, Ctrl+Esc

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