High load average

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Sa, den 09.04.2005 schrieb Oded Maimon um 16:13:

> :), i know, but i had few times that the load avarage was 7! and
> in top the cpus was not even close to  100%.
> 
> how can i check this kind of behave?

Please don't top-post and don't post HTML formatted mails to this list.

A high load does not mean the CPU must be heavily used. The load just
reflects the number of active processes measured in time frames. Start
"top -i" to let only display the active processes.

Alexander


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