high load average?
hello,
Have amd64 sarge installed with a 2.6.15 em64t kernel.
I was noticing that top was showing some processes running and thought it was
a little high. I took a copy of the top command and pasted below.
This server was sitting doing nothing at that time, but shows I have 2
running.
When a server is completely idle, shouldn't the load average be 0.00 ?
and only showing 1 total tasks running? This one flips between 2 and 1 all
the time. (at idle times)
Is there any other way to figure out what that other process might be?
Thanks for any help!
cheers,
Mike
top - 08:10:02 up 3 days, 23:12, 1 user, load average: 0.40, 0.41, 0.41
Tasks: 83 total, 2 running, 81 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 0.0% us, 0.0% sy, 0.0% ni, 100.0% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si
Mem: 2060168k total, 2038336k used, 21832k free, 23124k buffers
Swap: 0k total, 0k used, 0k free, 1540540k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
1 root 16 0 2664 564 480 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.19 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 0:00.01 events/0
5 root 13 -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 0:00.22 kblockd/0
11 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khubd
13 root 20 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpid
153 root 18 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 aio/0
152 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 1:04.95 kswapd0
755 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kseriod
853 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ata/0
857 root 11 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 scsi_eh_0
858 root 11 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 scsi_eh_1
927 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:03.29 md1_raid1
959 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:03.47 md2_raid1
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