From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261853AbUB1OpZ (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Feb 2004 09:45:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261857AbUB1OpZ (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Feb 2004 09:45:25 -0500 Received: from slimnet.xs4all.nl ([194.109.194.192]:57784 "EHLO slimnas.slim") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261853AbUB1OpN (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Feb 2004 09:45:13 -0500 Subject: Re: Where does this load come from? From: Jurgen Kramer To: Denis Vlasenko Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <200402281504.41993.vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua> References: <1077971267.10257.24.camel@paragon.slim> <200402281504.41993.vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1077979732.5980.3.camel@paragon.slim> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 (1.4.5-7) Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 15:48:52 +0100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 2004-02-28 at 14:04, Denis Vlasenko wrote: > On Saturday 28 February 2004 14:27, Jurgen Kramer wrote: > > 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 > > Post unabridged 'top b n 1' please. > Top version? > -- > vda OK I found the culprit. Some script got started in rc.local which took all the CPU time :-( (although it's a very simple script...). Sorry that I bothered you with this... Jurgen