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From: Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@wpkg.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: loadavg always equal or above 1.00 - how to explain?
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 12:57:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <438EE515.1080001@wpkg.org> (raw)

I noticed one of my Samba + OpenLDAP servers, running 2.6.11.4 kernel 
has loadavg always equal or above 1.00, although I can't explain it.

# cat /proc/loadavg
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.

When I view the process list with top, no process takes more than 1% of 
CPU time; RAM usage is also minimal:


# free
              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:        320836     241016      79820          0      23308     177232
-/+ buffers/cache:      40476     280360
Swap:       811272      14612     796660

This has ~ 50 processes running (ps aux|wc -l), and ~ 50 network 
connections (netstat -tupna|wc -l), so everything normal.

Nothing unusual in dmesg, too.

What can cause this anormal load, and how can I spot it?


-- 
Tomek
http://wpkg.org
WPKG - software deployment and upgrades with Samba

             reply	other threads:[~2005-12-01 11:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-12-01 11:57 Tomasz Chmielewski [this message]
2005-12-01 12:28 ` loadavg always equal or above 1.00 - how to explain? Xavier Bestel
2005-12-01 12:46   ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2005-12-01 12:30 ` Norbert van Nobelen
2005-12-01 12:50   ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2005-12-01 12:41 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-12-01 13:00   ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2005-12-01 13:33     ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-12-01 17:51     ` Zan Lynx
2005-12-01 12:58 ` Bernd Eckenfels

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