Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon <at> gmail.com> writes:
> > One of the workstations (amd64 2gig ram) has a load that never drops
> > below 1.0, as seen by top. Looking at a ps nothing stands out. I did
> > notice that 'X' is at the top of the list, even when the machine is
> > quiescent (nobody doing anything). Suspiciaous. Clearly I have a run
> > away or hidden process using resources. Although all my system run
> > kde 3.5.8 only one shows this problem.
> vmstat is your friend here. It's all in the man page, so use it and
> narrow down the process that's blocking. Maybe you have a threading
> race condition or similar.
# vmstat
procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system-- ----cpu----
r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa
0 0 0 847368 224736 403404 0 0 26 12 172 251 1 0 98 1
vmstat -s
2057808 total memory
1212156 used memory
611628 active memory
341672 inactive memory
845652 free memory
224784 buffer memory
404524 swap cache
6273340 total swap
0 used swap
6273340 free swap
20189 non-nice user cpu ticks
110 nice user cpu ticks
3748 system cpu ticks
2444468 idle cpu ticks
28905 IO-wait cpu ticks
588 IRQ cpu ticks
80 softirq cpu ticks
0 stolen cpu ticks
659529 pages paged in
289340 pages paged out
0 pages swapped in
0 pages swapped out
4307893 interrupts
6269353 CPU context switches
1202832933 boot time
7300 forks
> Also look into a hardware difference between this machine and the
> others, and differences in the kernel config and loaded modules.
Nothing here, all is similar to other system. And historically,
this system has not had this problem. I'm not certain when it started:
$ w
14:39:25 up 3:23, 1 user, load average: 1.00, 1.00, 1.00
It looks more like corruption in the application binary to me.
When have you ever seen a system at all three timing interval
locked at 1.00 when a system is quiescent?
What package is top part of?
> If all this reveals nothing, then maybe you do have a suspicious
> problem. In which case, post back real quick
I do not suspect a 'hack' is involved, because if I pull the ethernet
cable, it does not effect the load (still at 1.00).
Jame
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