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From: ken@stonehenge.netadventure.com (Ken Mugrage)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Why is my load so high?
Date: 8 Apr 1997 23:22:54 GMT
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I just upgraded from 2.1 to 3.0, and now my system load is going bonkers.
I'll just be working along and the load will suddenly go from it's standard
of .2 to 1.1 and sit there. What is really strange is I'm not doing anything
at the time.
Below is a C&P from a top that shows a 98.8% idle cpu and plenty of memory,
yet a load that is much higher than I would normally see with 2.1.
Any ideas at all would be much appreciated.
load averages: 1.13, 1.08, 0.84
54 processes: 1 running, 49 sleeping, 4 stopped
CPU states: 0.6% user, 0.0% nice, 0.6% system, 0.0% interrupt, 98.8% idle
Memory: Real: 5880K/23M Virt: 19M/290M Free: 29M
PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND
293 ken 2 0 1396K 1116K sleep 4:39 0.05% 0.05% pine
15940 ken 2 0 568K 1312K sleep 0:29 0.00% 0.00% xterm
6260 ken 18 0 316K 364K sleep 0:00 0.00% 0.00% screen
165 www 18 0 784K 152K sleep 0:00 0.00% 0.00% <ns-httpd>
115 root 18 0 72K 84K sleep 0:14 0.00% 0.00% update
20 root 10 0 748K 2260K sleep 0:02 0.00% 0.00% mount_mfs
15892 root 10 0 352K 796K sleep 0:00 0.00% 0.00% xdm
16085 ken 10 0 708K 728K sleep 0:03 0.00% 0.00% bash
15943 ken 10 0 704K 720K sleep 0:00 0.00% 0.00% bash
26887 root 10 0 360K 420K sleep 0:10 0.00% 0.00% httpd
1 root 10 0 168K 312K sleep 0:02 0.00% 0.00% init
Thanks
Ken