From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Tue, 21 Mar 2006 12:43:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([127.0.0.1]:56522 "EHLO bacchus.dhis.org") by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S8133416AbWCUMnL (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Mar 2006 12:43:11 +0000 Received: from denk.linux-mips.net (denk.linux-mips.net [127.0.0.1]) by bacchus.dhis.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k2LCqvCt008849; Tue, 21 Mar 2006 12:52:57 GMT Received: (from ralf@localhost) by denk.linux-mips.net (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id k2LCqtBE008848; Tue, 21 Mar 2006 12:52:55 GMT Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 12:52:55 +0000 From: Ralf Baechle To: colin Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: uptime is too high. Is it normal? Message-ID: <20060321125255.GA8779@linux-mips.org> References: <009101c64ce4$72d78820$106215ac@realtek.com.tw> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <009101c64ce4$72d78820$106215ac@realtek.com.tw> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 10894 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: ralf@linux-mips.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 08:39:08PM +0800, colin wrote: > Hi all, > We use MIPS Linux+uClibc0.9.28+busybox 1.1.0 on our machine. > After use "uptime" to get the loading of device, it shows: > 03:50:05 up 3:50, load average: 2.00, 2.00, 2.00 > Is it normal? It seems too high because my PC Linux has a much lower value: > 20:38:31 up 12 days, 5:11, 5 users, load average: 0.04, 0.01, 0.00 Well, check with ps what is causing the load. Look for processes in either 'D' or 'R' state. Ralf