Re: Why is my load average 3.00?
Thanks to all who responded. It appears that, indeed, it was khubd's D
process that was causing the "problem". That, in turn, is related to
problems I've been having with USB on that machine. You may hear more
about those problems on the list shortly, but this one is solved.
ap
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Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin
Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
clists@perrin.socsci.unc.edu * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu
On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Alvin Oga <aoga@Maggie.Linux-Consulting.com> [2002.10.30.0410 +0100]:
> > de-install/remove postgres ( yoou pobably have tons of pending emails ? )
>
> what does postgres have to do with email?
>
> and this is linux, you don't remove software or restart to fix
> problems. his system can probably run 20 postgres invocations
> simultaneously.
>
> anyway, uninterruptible sleep, state 'D' is the answer that others
> posted. load level 3.00 does not mean that it's overloaded, because
> those uninterruptibly sleeping processes basically just sit in the
> processor queue but eat no processor time (well, or very little...).
>
> --
> .''`. martin f. krafft <madduck@debian.org>
> : :' : proud Debian developer, admin, and user
> `. `'`
> `- Debian - when you have better things to do than to fix a system
>
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