Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932169AbVLAL5X (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Dec 2005 06:57:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932175AbVLAL5X (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Dec 2005 06:57:23 -0500 Received: from networks.syneticon.net ([213.239.212.131]:63936 "EHLO mail2.syneticon.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932169AbVLAL5W (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Dec 2005 06:57:22 -0500 Message-ID: <438EE515.1080001@wpkg.org> Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 12:57:09 +0100 From: Tomasz Chmielewski User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-3mdk (X11/20051015) X-Accept-Language: de-DE, de, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: loadavg always equal or above 1.00 - how to explain? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1172 Lines: 36 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 - 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/