ain, its all a guess.
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Alex Shnitman
> Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 9:46 AM
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> Subject: CPU load & load average
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> Hi,
>
> I have a program that continuou
On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 11:15:35AM +0300, Oded Arbel wrote:
> On Wednesday 10 September 2003 10:45, Alex Shnitman wrote:
>
> The load average is the load on the system including IO, which you can't see
> in procps. I have the same problem, but with network streams as well, and the
> main proble
On Wednesday 10 September 2003 10:45, Alex Shnitman wrote:
> And in any case, I'd really like to understand how it's possible to have
> very light CPU load and a high load average. If I understand correctly,
> the latter is the average of the number of processes ready to run at any
> given moment.
Hi,
I have a program that continuously writes multiple streams into files on
the disk. I'm seeing a strange phenomenon -- the CPU load is in the
single digits (both "user" and "system"), however the load average is
very high, and the system is very unresponsive. The disk is running in
DMA mode so
