[PLUG] weird load average on 2.6.0-test8

Russell Senior seniorr at aracnet.com
Mon Oct 20 20:28:02 UTC 2003


Since booting 2.6.0-test8 yesterday, my load average has been about 2
larger than it should, as far as I can tell.  The machine is basically
idle, 2-way SMP (which probably explains the 2).  

$ uptime
  8:22pm  up 1 day,  4:52,  5 users,  load average: 2.05, 2.06, 2.01

$ top | head
top - 20:23:59 up 1 day,  4:53,  5 users,  load average: 2.06, 2.06, 2.01
Tasks:  80 total,   1 running,  79 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  0.4% us,  0.3% sy,  3.2% ni, 95.6% id,  0.6% wa,  0.0% hi,  0.0% si
Mem:   1033756k total,  1005092k used,    28664k free,   471228k buffers
Swap:  2000084k total,        0k used,  2000084k free,   117040k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND           
    1 root      16   0  1460  496 1312 S  0.0  0.0   0:12.47 init              
    2 root      RT   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 migration/0       
    3 root      34  19     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0       

I looked in /src/linux-2.6.0-test8/Documentation/Changes, and it
recommends procps 3.1.13.  Debian has 3.1.12 currently, but I compiled
3.1.13 and it is telling me the same thing.  Top says nothing is using
CPU, and that there is only one task running.  Why the loadave of 2?
Can anyone explain this?

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seniorr at aracnet.com      mrlosh''  -- Bashgali Kafir for ``If you have
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