Skipping queue run -- load average too high

[Mertens, Bram]

> 


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-----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-list-
> bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Kenneth Holter
> Sent: woensdag 2 september 2009 9:44
> To: redhat-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Skipping queue run -- load average too high
> 
> Hi.
> 
> 
> One of my RHEL 5.2 server running on Vmware ESX 3.5 has started
> reporting
> this message:
> 
> * sm-msp-queue[5086]: runqueue: Skipping queue run -- load average too
> high*
> 
> The RHEL-box have been assigned two CPU's, and appears to be working
> just
> fine. The load avarage, however, reported by "top" is over 50, and I'm
> getting the error mentioned above. As far as I can see, the load
> avarage
> reported by top must be wrong. I've seen this type of error before,
but
> never found out what's causing this. Does anyone know what's causing
> this?

Do you have the VMWare Tools installed?  Not certain if it will help for
this issue but it often resolves strange resource behaviour.

Regards

Bram