on Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 09:37:36PM -0500, MaD dUCK (madduck@madduck.net) wrote: > 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??? It's not 200% loaded. There are two processes in the run queue. I'd do a 'ps aux' and look at what's runnable (STAT = 'R'). You might have to do this repeatedly to find out what's there. If it's the same processes consistently, you might look to see what they or their children are doing. Note that you list *no* runnable processes in your ps output. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
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