From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932082AbVKNUO0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Nov 2005 15:14:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932083AbVKNUO0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Nov 2005 15:14:26 -0500 Received: from 8.ctyme.com ([69.50.231.8]:17623 "EHLO darwin.ctyme.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932082AbVKNUOZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Nov 2005 15:14:25 -0500 Message-ID: <4378F021.3060705@perkel.com> Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 12:14:25 -0800 From: Marc Perkel User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: High load levels - but not really Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spamfilter-host: darwin.ctyme.com - http://www.junkemailfilter.com" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I have a strange problem on one of my spam filter servers. Programs like top and xosview are showing very high load levels but I don't actually believe the load levels are all that high. Levels have run up as high as 250 but the computer is still very responsive, not really sluggish at all, memory usage is very low, and CPU on the xosview graphs look less that 50% busy. It is an ASUS motherboard with a dual core Athlon X2 and nVidia chipset. I just installed 2.6.14.2 kernel to see if that would fix it and it didn't. The computer works fine except that the load it's reporting is 10x what I think it really is. Anyone else seen this?