I have a dual-CPU system running potato with kernel 2.2.3. Here's what top reports:
6:30pm up 36 days, 20:55, 10 users, load average: 5.22, 5.28, 5.17
152 processes: 147 sleeping, 2 running, 2 zombie, 1 stopped
CPU states: 0.4% user, 1.5% system, 0.0% nice, 97.9% idle
Mem: 516688K av, 480208K used, 36480K free, 96664K shrd, 167100K buff
Swap: 513968K av, 0K used, 513968K free 134748K cached
How can the load be above 5 while the CPU is 97.9% idle? This has
been the case over the last week. The load stays very high even when
there are hours of very low CPU activity. Any clues?
Thanks,
Max
--
The hopeful depend on a world without end
Whatever the hopeless may say
Neil Peart, 1985
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