Re: high system cpu usage, no culprit in top
On April 7, 2004 05:03 pm, Ken Gilmour wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Apr 2004 14:07:13 -0700, Leo Spalteholz wrote:
> <snip>
>
> >It's really annoying.. Could this be a misbehaving driver? How would I
> >find out?
>
> What is the output of "ps -uagx"? Are there any defunct processes there?
A whole crapload of processes :). Most of them Sleeping.
root 2 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SWN Apr06 0:00
[ksoftirqd/0]
root 3 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW< Apr06 0:00 [events/0]
root 4 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW< Apr06 0:00 [kblockd/0]
root 5 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Apr06 0:00 [pdflush]
root 6 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Apr06 0:03 [pdflush]
root 7 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Apr06 0:02 [kswapd0]
root 8 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW< Apr06 0:00 [aio/0]
root 9 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Apr06 0:00 [kseriod]
root 115 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW< Apr06 0:00 [reiserfs/0]
root 218 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Apr06 0:00 [khubd]
those are the only ones with a state that is not just 'S'. I don't really
know what you mean by "defunct processes". Cpu usage is 0% for every
process except X which is 1.4%. Yet top still reports about 34% user.
>
> Also try these following commands:
>
> df -h
> free
> vmstat
Looks fine to me. I don't really know what I'm looking for. Disk space is
plentiful in the partitions I'm using and memory usage is fine too.
Thanks,
Leo
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