High load average (FC5)

[Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer]

yinyang at eburg.com (Gordon Messmer) writes:
> $ ps ax | awk '{ if( match($3,/R/) ) { print } }'

Replace R by (R|D) as you want to see if you have processes in
uninterruptible sleep (you remember right when you said: "iirc load average
is based upon processes waiting for I/O" except you should have add "is
also based")
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Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer