What's causing my load average?
Hi People,
I've got a box here which is cliaming a load average of about 10, but as 'ps
aux' shows no process taking any CPU time. Any idea's what's going on?
duane:/var/log# ps aux
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
root 1 0.0 0.0 1276 504 ? S May07 0:07 init [2]
root 2 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW May07 0:00 [keventd]
root 3 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SWN May07 0:01 [ksoftirqd_CPU0]
root 4 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW May07 0:29 [kswapd]
root 5 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW May07 0:00 [bdflush]
root 6 0.2 0.0 0 0 ? SW May07 10:54 [kupdated]
root 7 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW May07 0:03 [kreiserfsd]
daemon 91 0.0 0.0 1424 564 ? S May07 0:04 /sbin/portmap
root 161 0.0 0.0 5612 708 ? S May07 0:00 /usr/sbin/ypbind
root 162 0.0 0.0 5612 708 ? S May07 0:03 /usr/sbin/ypbind
root 163 0.0 0.0 5612 708 ? S May07 0:00 /usr/sbin/ypbind
root 164 0.0 0.0 5612 708 ? S May07 0:02 /usr/sbin/ypbind
root 205 0.0 0.0 1588 788 ? S May07 0:00 /usr/sbin/automou
root 233 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW May07 0:00 [lockd]
root 234 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW May07 0:00 [rpciod]
root 268 0.0 0.0 1772 768 ? S May07 0:00 /usr/sbin/cron
root 271 0.0 0.0 1288 504 tty1 S May07 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400
root 272 0.0 0.0 1288 504 tty2 S May07 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400
root 273 0.0 0.0 1288 504 tty3 S May07 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400
root 274 0.0 0.0 1288 504 tty4 S May07 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400
root 275 0.0 0.0 1288 504 tty5 S May07 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400
root 276 0.0 0.0 1288 504 tty6 S May07 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400
root 277 0.0 0.0 2028 1044 ? S May07 0:00 in.rlogind
roberts 278 0.0 0.0 2952 1692 pts/0 S May07 0:00 -csh
root 319 0.0 0.0 2484 1460 pts/0 S May07 0:00 bash
root 2770 0.0 0.0 1620 644 pts/0 S May09 0:00 less debug
daemon 10469 0.0 0.0 1300 544 ? S May09 0:00 /usr/sbin/atd
root 10690 0.0 0.0 1500 732 ? S May09 0:00 /usr/sbin/inetd
root 11465 0.0 0.0 1532 712 ? S May09 0:00 /usr/sbin/lpd
root 11500 0.0 0.0 1448 696 ? S May09 0:00 /sbin/rpc.statd
root 11625 0.0 0.0 1944 1064 ? S May09 0:00 /sbin/klogd
root 11642 0.0 0.0 1520 752 ? S May09 0:01 /sbin/syslogd
root 11974 0.0 0.0 1972 1964 ? SL May09 0:02 /usr/sbin/ntpd
root 12200 0.0 0.0 1920 1096 ? S May09 0:01 /usr/sbin/amd -F
root 12259 0.0 0.0 1548 760 ? S May09 0:00 /usr/sbin/automou
root 12437 0.0 0.0 1592 792 ? S May09 0:00 /usr/sbin/automou
root 12441 0.0 0.0 1556 812 ? D May09 0:00 /usr/sbin/automou
root 12446 0.0 0.0 1548 772 ? D May09 0:00 /usr/sbin/automou
root 12453 0.0 0.0 2072 996 ? D May09 0:00 in.rshd
pauls 12525 0.0 0.0 2604 1316 ? D May09 0:00 -csh
pauls 12535 0.0 0.0 2604 1312 ? D May09 0:00 -csh
root 12550 0.0 0.0 2356 1412 ? D May09 0:00 -bash
root 12603 0.0 0.0 2336 1304 ? D May09 0:00 -bash
root 12893 0.0 0.0 1900 944 ? S 06:25 0:00 /USR/SBIN/CRON
root 12894 0.0 0.0 2028 908 ? S 06:25 0:00 /bin/sh -c test -
root 12895 0.0 0.0 1252 348 ? S 06:25 0:00 run-parts --repor
root 12922 0.0 0.0 2028 924 ? S 06:25 0:00 /bin/sh /etc/cron
root 12923 0.0 0.0 2048 952 ? S 06:25 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/
root 12937 0.0 0.0 2048 952 ? S 06:25 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/
root 12938 0.0 0.0 2336 516 ? S 06:25 0:00 sort -f
root 12939 0.0 0.0 1244 316 ? S 06:25 0:00 /usr/lib/locate/f
nobody 12940 0.0 0.0 1388 556 ? D 06:25 0:00 /usr/bin/find / (
root 13066 0.0 0.0 1888 908 ? S 12:48 0:00 in.rlogind
root 13067 0.0 0.0 2300 1288 pts/5 S 12:48 0:00 -bash
root 13090 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW 12:52 0:00 [nfsd]
root 13091 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW 12:52 0:00 [nfsd]
root 13092 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW 12:52 0:00 [nfsd]
root 13093 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW 12:52 0:00 [nfsd]
root 13094 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW 12:52 0:00 [nfsd]
root 13095 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW 12:52 0:00 [nfsd]
root 13096 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW 12:52 0:00 [nfsd]
root 13097 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW 12:52 0:00 [nfsd]
root 13098 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW 12:52 0:00 [nfsd]
root 13099 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW 12:52 0:00 [nfsd]
root 13100 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW 12:52 0:00 [nfsd]
root 13101 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW 12:52 0:00 [nfsd]
root 13102 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW 12:52 0:00 [nfsd]
root 13103 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW 12:52 0:00 [nfsd]
root 13104 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW 12:52 0:00 [nfsd]
root 13105 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW 12:52 0:00 [nfsd]
root 13108 0.0 0.0 1420 572 ? S 12:52 0:00 /usr/sbin/rpc.mou
root 13132 0.0 0.0 3396 1560 pts/5 R 13:52 0:00 ps aux
duane:/var/log# uptime
13:52:34 up 2 days, 22:28, 2 users, load average: 8.92, 12.80, 10.83
Thanks
Paul
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