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

Arjan van de Ven
2005-12-01T12:41:16Z

On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 12:57 +0100, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
>
> 1.00 1.10 1.06 1/65 782
>
> This server is barely used, and as I remember, loadavg was always
> close
> to 0.00 on that system.

remember that load is the sum of running/runable processes and processes
in D state (waiting for IO generally, but not always). I'm pretty sure
your load comes from one of the later...

ps ought to tell you which one it is... (if not, an
"echo t > /proc/sysrq-trigger" will dump the kernel state including the
offending process, and will also tell us where exactly that process is)

Greetings,
Arjan van de Ven