Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030526AbVIOQir (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Sep 2005 12:38:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030527AbVIOQir (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Sep 2005 12:38:47 -0400 Received: from smtp-out-02.utu.fi ([130.232.202.172]:18411 "EHLO smtp-out-02.utu.fi") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030526AbVIOQiq (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Sep 2005 12:38:46 -0400 Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 19:38:34 +0300 From: Jan Knutar Subject: Re: 2.6.14-rc1 load average calculation broken? In-reply-to: <43296BCE.9020700@ppp0.net> To: Jan Dittmer Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List Message-id: <200509151938.36316.jk-lkml@sci.fi> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline References: <43295E30.7030508@ppp0.net> <43296BCE.9020700@ppp0.net> User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 979 Lines: 21 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... - 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/