High load average (FC5)

[Arthur Pemberton]

On 4/14/06, Jeffrey Ross <jeff at bubble.org> wrote:
>
> Here are the first few lines from top, I should have mentioned that I
> had checked it and saw nothing that stood out
>
> top - 17:34:25 up 3 days,  7:43,  7 users,  load average: 7.24, 7.32, 7.26
> Tasks: 120 total,   1 running, 119 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
> Cpu(s):  0.7% us,  0.0% sy,  0.0% ni, 99.3% id,  0.0% wa,  0.0% hi,  0.0%si
> Mem:    451148k total,   412176k used,    38972k free,    12944k buffers
> Swap:  2096440k total,    29264k used,  2067176k free,   102500k cached
>
>   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
> 2222 root      15   0  196m  88m 8460 S  0.7 20.1 106:31.47 Xorg
>     1 root      16   0  1992  620  536 S  0.0  0.1   0:00.62 init
>     2 root      34  19     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:10.19 ksoftirqd/0
>     3 root      RT   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 watchdog/0
>     4 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.04 events/0
>     5 root      12  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 khelper
>
>
> Well I am not sure how `uptime` does its calculations, but you output
shoes your CPU with 99.3% id (which I assume to be idle). Maybe `uptime` is
complaining about your memory usage.

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