From: Norbert van Nobelen <norbert-kernel@hipersonik.com>
To: Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@wpkg.org>
Subject: Re: loadavg always equal or above 1.00 - how to explain?
Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 13:30:32 +0100
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Can you use top to determine which process is requesting most of the CPU? 


On Thursday 01 December 2005 12:57, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
> 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?

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