Re: loadavg always equal or above 1.00 - how to explain?

[Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@wpkg.org>]

Norbert van Nobelen schrieb:
> Can you use top to determine which process is requesting most of the CPU? 

Actually, when I press shift + P in top, top is the most used process 
for a while - around 1%, then it drops to ~ 0.0-0.3% and stays like 
that; other processes (like sshd, smbd) don't take more than ~0.5% 
really few times a minute.

Same goes with memory usage.

vmstat output:

procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system-- 
----cpu----
  r  b   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   so    bi    bo   in    cs us 
sy id wa
  2  0  14612  69748  26112 184004    0    0     1     1    3     3  3 
3 94  0


iostat output:

avg-cpu:  %user   %nice    %sys %iowait   %idle
            1,79    1,52    2,66    0,33   93,70

Device:            tps   Blk_read/s   Blk_wrtn/s   Blk_read   Blk_wrtn
hda               2,51        49,99        50,09  538412978  539475864
hdb               0,00         0,00         0,00       1744          0
fd0               0,00         0,00         0,00          6          0


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