Why is my load ave so high now?
Aaron Konstam
akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Fri Jul 24 14:15:50 UTC 2009
On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 22:51 -0400, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
> When I was running F8, my server averaged a load ave oof around 4.
>
> Now that I'm running F10, and bittorrent is no longer running, in fact,
> not much of anything besides Seti at Home (BOINC client running
> astro_pulse), my load average is up around 11 and frequently exceeds 12
> (and of course when it exceeds 12, it stops receiving emails). Here's a
> 5 second snapshot from top:
>
> > top - 22:48:06 up 2 days, 18:51, 5 users, load average: 11.15, 11.33, 11.63
> > Tasks: 250 total, 2 running, 247 sleeping, 0 stopped, 1 zombie
> > Cpu(s): 5.9%us, 1.8%sy, 92.0%ni, 0.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.3%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
> > Mem: 2074172k total, 1932680k used, 141492k free, 108872k buffers
> > Swap: 3911816k total, 552k used, 3911264k free, 977568k cached
> >
> > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
> > 3234 root 39 19 50292 46m 2072 R 91.7 2.3 3520:10 astropulse_5.06
What is astropulse that is using 91.7% of your cpu? You also seem to
have a large number of tasks running and sleeping which might up your
load average.
>
> > 3378 root 20 0 324m 36m 8496 S 3.6 1.8 14:34.20 Xorg
> > 16271 cummings 20 0 172m 60m 21m S 1.1 3.0 0:37.77 thunderbird-bin
> > 4026 cummings 20 0 22412 11m 7612 S 0.5 0.6 0:09.28 metacity
> > 4108 cummings 20 0 27276 11m 8748 S 0.4 0.6 18:41.47 multiload-apple
> > 4126 cummings 20 0 74844 18m 10m S 0.4 0.9 0:07.54 gnome-terminal
> > 4027 cummings 20 0 63536 20m 10m S 0.3 1.0 0:27.59 gnome-panel
> > 4030 cummings 20 0 34104 13m 5500 S 0.3 0.7 0:24.95 gnome-screensav
> > 16252 root 20 0 2560 1184 844 S 0.3 0.1 0:00.97 top
> > 4086 cummings 20 0 57960 14m 9716 S 0.2 0.7 0:06.57 wnck-applet
> > 4093 cummings 20 0 34464 14m 10m S 0.2 0.7 5:31.08 clock-applet
> > 196 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.1 0.0 1:08.89 ata/0
> > 971 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.1 0.0 3:38.03 scsi_eh_5
> > 2838 root 20 0 3332 520 364 S 0.1 0.0 0:05.12 lircd
> > 3138 root 20 0 3624 1032 912 S 0.1 0.0 0:14.66 hald-addon-stor
> > 3175 root 20 0 3624 1032 912 S 0.1 0.0 0:37.94 hald-addon-stor
> > 3194 mailman 20 0 13620 7000 2820 S 0.1 0.3 0:53.14 python
> > 3879 cummings 20 0 58964 30m 8092 S 0.1 1.5 21:56.13 gnome-settings-
> > 4478 cummings 20 0 10044 4432 2376 S 0.1 0.2 0:01.48 xterm
>
> I'm not swapping, in fact, my program memory usage is < 40% (of 2GB).
> And I'm sure there are less processes contending for the CPU since my
> Gnome session is pretty bear right now. No firefox, and only this
> instance of thunderbird....
>
> I'm open to any WAGs right now as to the cause. Its probably something
> I haven't yet fixed from my preupgrade....(from F8)
>
> --
> Kevin J. Cummings
> kjchome at rcn.com
> cummings at kjchome.homeip.net
> cummings at kjc386.framingham.ma.us
> Registered Linux User #1232 (http://counter.li.org)
>
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Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam at sbcglobal.net
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