Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261579AbUJXSoF (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Oct 2004 14:44:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261581AbUJXSoF (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Oct 2004 14:44:05 -0400 Received: from smtp-out-01.utu.fi ([130.232.202.171]:62719 "EHLO smtp-out-01.utu.fi") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261579AbUJXSoC (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Oct 2004 14:44:02 -0400 Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 21:43:42 +0300 From: Jan Knutar Subject: Re: Bug? Load avg 2.0 when idle. In-reply-to: <20041024182918.GA12532@sommrey.de> To: Joerg Sommrey , Linux kernel mailing list Message-id: <200410242143.51025.jk-lkml@sci.fi> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: <20041024182918.GA12532@sommrey.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 660 Lines: 15 On Sunday 24 October 2004 21:29, Joerg Sommrey wrote: > Hello, > > there is a load average of 2.0+ even if the box is almost idle. (i.e. "top" > shows just one running process: top itself.) Starting two cpu-intensive > processes raises the load average to 4.0+. How can I determine the > source for the high load, or is this a bug? > I'm running 2.6.9 on a dual-athlon box. Look for processes stuck in D state... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/