From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261816AbUB1MXo (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Feb 2004 07:23:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261834AbUB1MXo (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Feb 2004 07:23:44 -0500 Received: from slimnet.xs4all.nl ([194.109.194.192]:36536 "EHLO slimnas.slim") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261816AbUB1MXl (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Feb 2004 07:23:41 -0500 Subject: Where does this load come from? From: Jurgen Kramer To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1077971267.10257.24.camel@paragon.slim> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 (1.4.5-7) Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 13:27:47 +0100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, I am seeing some strange load figures on my P4 Celeron based system which I cannot explain. There always seem to be some load while there are no real apps running. Stopping all daemons doesn't seem to effect things at all. Output from top with 2.6.4-rc1: 13:16:38 up 38 min, 1 user, load average: 1.67, 1.74, 1.57 62 processes: 59 sleeping, 3 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU states: 47.5% user 52.4% system 0.0% nice 0.0% iowait 0.0% idle Mem: 515552k av, 93544k used, 422008k free, 0k shrd, 10980k buff 49632k active, 29284k inactive Swap: 265064k av, 0k used, 265064k free 59836k cached Is this a real problem or is top screwing things up here? 0.0% idle doesn't seem right as for the load average. This system runs on RH9. Compared to my P4 HT system running 2.6.4-rc1 on Fedore Core-1: 13:17:42 up 30 min, 5 users, load average: 0.12, 0.63, 0.64 91 processes: 90 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU states: cpu user nice system irq softirq iowait idle total 1.2% 0.0% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 198.0% cpu00 0.9% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 98.8% cpu01 0.1% 0.0% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 99.4% Mem: 1034456k av, 433712k used, 600744k free, 0k shrd, 26496k buff 239752k active, 152112k inactive Swap: 787176k av, 0k used, 787176k free 290452k cached This looks more like it. What can be the problem here (if there is a real problem)? Jurgen