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Re: high load average?



Am Freitag, den 27.01.2006, 08:21 -0800 schrieb michael:
> 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. 

Hi, 

have a look at top a while, when the server is working, for example
delivering a website or something other. And, talk about the servers you
are running: webserver, gameserver, databases? It is very difficult to
help you without any information.

> 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)

top itself is running, the swap-deamon, init-process is also running
during your machine is up.

> Is there any other way to figure out what that other process might be?

No, top should show all processes, look for a while to it. In my
opinion, the kswapd is running too often, but i doen't know what your
machine is working for. 

> 
> Thanks for any help!
> cheers,
> Mike

Domski
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