high load average
someone explain this to me:
albatross:~$ uname -a
Linux albatross 2.2.17 #2 Mon Sep 04 20:49:27 CET 2000 i586 unknown
albatross:~$ uptime
2:56am up 174 days, 5:50, 1 user, load average: 2.00, 2.05, 2.01
# processes sorted by decreasing cpu usage
albatross:~$ ps aux | head -1 && ps aux | sort -nrk3 | head -5
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
root 15889 0.2 1.6 2720 1536 ? S 02:50 0:02 /usr/sbin/sshd
root 1646 0.1 0.9 1672 864 ? S 2000 32:01 /usr/sbin/diald -
xfs 1776 0.0 1.0 2060 1020 ? S 2000 0:00 xfs -droppriv -da
squid 1748 0.0 0.3 1088 332 ? S 2000 0:06 (unlinkd)
squid 1742 0.0 19.2 20048 18440 ? S 2000 15:01 (squid) -D
root 25890 0.0 0.7 1652 764 ? D 00:01 0:00 sh /etc/ppp/ip-up
root 25889 0.0 0.7 1644 752 ? S 00:01 0:00 bash /etc/ppp/ip-
the load average displayed by uptime has been very consistently above
2.00 and the output of ps aux has been pretty much the same for the
past two weeks. no hung jobs. no traffic. the server basically *isn't
being used*, especially not during the last 1, 5, or 15 minutes. and
cron isn't running, there are *only* 35 running jobs. why, oh why then
is it 200% loaded???
martin
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