High load average (FC5)

Kam Leo kam.leo at gmail.com
Fri Apr 14 20:43:14 UTC 2006


On 4/14/06, Jeffrey Ross <jeff at bubble.org> wrote:
> noticed this morning that the system is running with a reported load
> average of: 7.15, 7.26, 7.16
>
> not sure what's causing it to be so high.  iirc load average is based
> upon processes waiting for I/O.  This machine should be pretty much
> quiet at the moment.
>
> How can I figure out what's jacking the load average up?
>
> TIA, Jeff
>

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