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From: Jan Knutar <jk-lkml@sci.fi>
To: Jan Dittmer <jdittmer@ppp0.net>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.14-rc1 load average calculation broken?
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 19:38:34 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200509151938.36316.jk-lkml@sci.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43296BCE.9020700@ppp0.net>

On Thursday 15 September 2005 15:40, Jan Dittmer wrote:
> Jan Dittmer wrote:
> > Get a steady 2.00 there. I stopped unnecessary processes etc.
> > load average seems to be invariant
> >
> > top - 13:41:32 up  4:44,  2 users,  load average: 2.00, 2.00, 2.00
> > Tasks: 108 total,   2 running, 105 sleeping,   0 stopped,   1 zombie
> > Cpu(s):  0.0% us,  0.0% sy,  0.0% ni, 99.7% id,  0.3% wa,  0.0% hi,  0.0% si
> 
> Hmm, reboot to 2.6.14-rc1-git1 cured it. Will see if it happens again.
> (btw. it was not invariant but the lower limit was 2 even after stopping
> everything but some essential processes (ssh, init, getty))

Did you check with ps aux, if there were processes stuck in D state? Those
count towards the load average...


  reply	other threads:[~2005-09-15 16:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-15 11:42 Jan Dittmer
2005-09-15 12:40 ` Jan Dittmer
2005-09-15 16:38   ` Jan Knutar [this message]
2005-09-15 18:37     ` Jan Dittmer
2005-09-15 19:53 ` Pavel Machek
2005-09-16 10:46   ` Jan Dittmer
2005-09-16 15:10     ` [linux-usb-devel] " Alan Stern
2005-09-16 15:41       ` Jan Dittmer
2005-09-16 16:15         ` Alan Stern
2005-09-16 17:40           ` Jan Dittmer
2005-09-19 18:56           ` Bill Davidsen
2005-09-19 20:38             ` Alan Stern

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