From: Rogier Wolff <R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl>
To: Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk <roy@karlsbakk.net>
Cc: Mark Hahn <hahn@physics.mcmaster.ca>,
Kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.5.51 load avg += 1
Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 13:25:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021215132554.D3779@bitwizard.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200212151202.09618.roy@karlsbakk.net>
On Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 12:02:09PM +0100, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
> On Saturday 14 December 2002 19:58, Mark Hahn wrote:
> > > running 2.5.51, when I run 'uptime', it shows my uptime+1. that means if
> > > my
> >
> > might you have a process/thread stuck in a short wait?
>
> how can this be? the load average was at the given point excactly 1.0, but the
> number of running processes (ps ax|grep -v grep | grep -w R) was 0.
Processes in "D" state also count towards the load average. Because
usually that means a "disk wait" which usually impacts
subjective-performance of the system just as much as the "running"
processes do.
Roger.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-12-15 12:18 UTC|newest]
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2002-12-15 11:02 ` 2.5.51 load avg += 1 Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2002-12-15 12:25 ` Rogier Wolff [this message]
2002-12-14 17:17 Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2002-12-16 18:06 ` Denis Vlasenko
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