Why is my load ave so high now?

[Bill Davidsen]

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    
	[___snip___]
> 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)
> 
You think 91% of your CPU going to astropulse has something to do with it? Try 
turning viewing of threads, I don't see how you would get that load unless you 
had multiple threads running. And you can attach a ".txt" file, so the lines 
don't get wrapped. In any case, it's low priority and nice so if you have 
anything useful running it should get the CPU.

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