Re: high load average

[MaD dUCK <madduck@madduck.net>]

also sprach Noah L. Meyerhans (on Mon, 05 Mar 2001 09:51:53PM -0500):
> Load average is not an indication of how busy the CPU is.  A busy CPU
> can *cause* a high load average, but so can other stuff.

good point. so i found two offending processes in state D:

root     24520  0.0  0.9  1652  904 ?        D    Feb25   0:00 /bin/gawk
root     25890  0.0  0.7  1652  764 ?        D    00:01   0:00 sh /etc/ppp/ip-up

however, a kill -9 on either one doesn't delete them, i cannot delete
it's directory in /proc (as works on solaris 2.6), and to the best of
my knowledge, these processes won't go away.

any tips, other than to reboot?

martin

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