Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030513AbVIOShw (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Sep 2005 14:37:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030567AbVIOShw (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Sep 2005 14:37:52 -0400 Received: from mail.portrix.net ([212.202.157.208]:38580 "EHLO zoidberg.portrix.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030513AbVIOShv (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Sep 2005 14:37:51 -0400 Message-ID: <4329BF79.20001@ppp0.net> Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 20:37:45 +0200 From: Jan Dittmer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050802 Thunderbird/1.0.6 Mnenhy/0.6.0.104 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jan Knutar CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: 2.6.14-rc1 load average calculation broken? References: <43295E30.7030508@ppp0.net> <43296BCE.9020700@ppp0.net> <200509151938.36316.jk-lkml@sci.fi> In-Reply-To: <200509151938.36316.jk-lkml@sci.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1374 Lines: 33 Jan Knutar wrote: > 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... No, I didn't explicitly. But I killed nearly every process but the kernel threads and it didn't change. Shortly before rebooting the load even rised again without me doing anything - very creepy (I thought about a rootkit but the machine just has a NATed ssh port open to the internet on a non-standard port). uptime is now 6:32 and it has not happened again. Jan - 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/