High load average (FC5)

[nicola .:kOoLiNuS:. losito]

Il giorno gio, 20/04/2006 alle 08.19 -0500, Jeff Vian ha scritto:
> On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 00:32 +0200, nicola .:kOoLiNuS:. losito wrote:
> > my 2 FC5 boxed had a "high" load of 2,something just browsing the
> > internet and chatting on IRC & some im's.
> > 
> > after having "killed" beagled and related helper on one of the box now i
> > have a more "manageable":
> > 
> > [nicola at cerebro ~]$ uptime
> > 00:15:38 up 1 day, 14:04,  2 users,  load average: 0.82, 0.71, 0.65
> > 
> > ... now i have to understand why on the laptop the Gnome System Monitor
> > says to me that i have 80% of disk usage {always simply browsing and
> > chatting}


> Disk usage has nothing to do with processes running.  It has to do with
> the amount of free disk space.


back on the heavy machine load with beagle.
I have:


[nicola at ierofante ~]$ uname -a
Linux ierofante.localdomain 2.6.16-1.2096_FC5 #1 Wed Apr 19 05:14:36
EDT 2006 i6 86 i686 i386 GNU/Linux


[nicola at ierofante ~]$ uptime
17:25:51 up  1:21,  2 users,  load average: 2.41, 2.15, 1.47


[nicola at ierofante ~]$ top
top - 17:26:01 up  1:21,  2 users,  load average: 2.35, 2.15, 1.47
Tasks: 114 total,   3 running, 111 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  8.2% us,  1.2% sy,  0.0% ni, 74.0% id, 16.3% wa,  0.3% hi, 
0.0% si,  0.0% st
Mem:   2075760k total,  1041172k used,  1034588k free,   163628k buffers
Swap:  1076312k total,        0k used,  1076312k free,   619460k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
 4970 nicola    15   0  2120  956  720 R  3.9  0.0   0:00.03 top
 2084 root      15   0  101m  20m  10m S  1.9  1.0   1:24.91 Xorg
 4761 root      15   0  4284 1232 1016 S  1.9  0.1   0:01.80
wpa_supplicant
    1 root      16   0  1992  684  584 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.57 init
    2 root      34  19     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0
    3 root      RT   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 watchdog/0
    4 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.12 events/0
    5 root      11  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 khelper
    6 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kthread
    8 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.05 kblockd/0
    9 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.11 kacpid
  102 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 khubd
  155 root      15   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 pdflush
  156 root      15   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.06 pdflush
  158 root      19  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 aio/0
  157 root      25   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kswapd0
  245 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.01 kseriod
  317 root      15   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 pccardd
  319 root      16   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.01 pccardd
  325 root      11  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kpsmoused
  343 root      15   0     0    0    0 R  0.0  0.0   0:00.96 kjournald
  382 root      11  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kauditd


[nicola at ierofante ~]$ df /dev/hda4
df: `/dev/hda4': No such file or directory


[nicola at ierofante ~]$ df /dev/hda5
Filesystem        blocchi di   1K   Usati Disponib. Uso% Montato su
-                      1037880       144   1037736   1% /dev


[nicola at ierofante ~]$ df /dev/hda6
Filesystem        blocchi di   1K   Usati Disponib. Uso% Montato su
/dev/hda6               124427     12356    105647  11% /boot


[nicola at ierofante ~]$ df /dev/hda7
Filesystem        blocchi di   1K   Usati Disponib. Uso% Montato su
/dev/hda7             20237648   6733548  12459476  36% /

a load average of 2 and something with only gaim and a browser opened is
a bit high, i think :-( i do also have 2GB of ram and a 1,6GHz centrino
CPU ...

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