From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: colin <colin@realtek.com.tw>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: uptime is too high. Is it normal?
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 13:36:09 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060321133609.GA12502@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <00a101c64ce9$554b3180$106215ac@realtek.com.tw>
On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 09:14:06PM +0800, colin wrote:
> 646 root DW [646]
> 647 root DW [647]
>
> The uptime value keeps on going higher and higher.
> It seems that both 646 & 647 process has the same parent "1".
> Their "utime" are "0".
Yes, these two are the offenders. A process should never be for a long
time in "D" state. You'll have to figure out what these processes are
doing, but they something wrong with these two.
The load average btw is a fairly artificial meassure. On a properly
working system it describes the burn of the workload of the system
reasonably well - but if things go wrong and cause processes to get
stuck in D state (aka uninterruptible sleep) then a system may well
still be perfectly responsive even though the load is very high.
Ralf
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-21 13:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-21 12:39 uptime is too high. Is it normal? colin
2006-03-21 12:39 ` colin
2006-03-21 12:52 ` Ralf Baechle
2006-03-21 13:14 ` colin
2006-03-21 13:14 ` colin
2006-03-21 13:36 ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
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