Re: 2.6.14-rc1 load average calculation broken?

Jan Knutar
2005-09-15T16:38:47Z

On Thursday 15 September 2005 15:40, Jan Dittmer wrote:
> Jan Dittmer wrote:
> > Get a steady 2.00 there. I stopped unnecessary processes etc.
> > load average seems to be invariant
> >
> > top - 13:41:32 up 4:44, 2 users, load average: 2.00, 2.00, 2.00
> > Tasks: 108 total, 2 running, 105 sleeping, 0 stopped, 1 zombie
> > Cpu(s): 0.0% us, 0.0% sy, 0.0% ni, 99.7% id, 0.3% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si
>
> Hmm, reboot to 2.6.14-rc1-git1 cured it. Will see if it happens again.
> (btw. it was not invariant but the lower limit was 2 even after stopping
> everything but some essential processes (ssh, init, getty))

Did you check with ps aux, if there were processes stuck in D state? Those
count towards the load average...