Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932220AbVLANAf (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Dec 2005 08:00:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932214AbVLANAf (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Dec 2005 08:00:35 -0500 Received: from networks.syneticon.net ([213.239.212.131]:49089 "EHLO mail2.syneticon.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932220AbVLANAe (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Dec 2005 08:00:34 -0500 Message-ID: <438EF3E5.5080709@wpkg.org> Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 14:00:21 +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: Arjan van de Ven Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: loadavg always equal or above 1.00 - how to explain? References: <438EE515.1080001@wpkg.org> <1133440871.2853.36.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> In-Reply-To: <1133440871.2853.36.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> 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: 1326 Lines: 41 Arjan van de Ven schrieb: > On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 12:57 +0100, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: > >>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. > > > remember that load is the sum of running/runable processes and processes > in D state (waiting for IO generally, but not always). I'm pretty sure > your load comes from one of the later... > > ps ought to tell you which one it is... (if not, an > "echo t > /proc/sysrq-trigger" will dump the kernel state including the > offending process, and will also tell us where exactly that process is) Wohoo, you're great, that was it: root 29547 0.0 0.3 7516 996 ? D Nov25 0:00 CROND root 29548 0.0 0.3 7516 996 ? Ss Nov25 0:00 CROND I stopped it, and loadavg is back to 0. Now I have to figure out what CROND was doing... Does ps always show processes in D state in CAPITAL letters? After cron restart it is "crond", as usual. -- 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/