sds: Perhaps you could use "vmstat" to check your reported load average. Your system was reporting 0.41 (post #99), but only 0.20 is accounted for in your post above.
Example: I have 3 processes running at a load of 0.44 each (1.32 total (the 5 and 15 minute reported averages have not had time to settle in the below capture)): top - 14:11:58 up 4 days, 6:29, 4 users, load average: 1.31, 0.80, 0.40 Tasks: 141 total, 4 running, 137 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 17.2%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 82.8%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Mem: 7956412k total, 1694448k used, 6261964k free, 669132k buffers Swap: 8294396k total, 0k used, 8294396k free, 505488k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 20631 doug 20 0 4156 92 0 R 44 0.0 3:05.54 waiter 20632 doug 20 0 4156 92 0 R 44 0.0 3:05.51 waiter 20633 doug 20 0 4156 92 0 R 44 0.0 3:05.48 waiter 255 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 2:43.92 kworker/6:1 1798 root 20 0 15972 692 512 S 0 0.0 0:45.75 irqbalance 1641 mysql 20 0 480m 41m 6984 S 0 0.5 0:42.53 mysqld 1006 syslog 20 0 243m 1440 1136 S 0 0.0 0:12.59 rsyslogd 100 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:06.54 kworker/1:1 101 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:06.01 kworker/3:1 and vmstat reports: doug@s15:~$ vmstat -n 10 50 procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system-- ----cpu---- r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa 1 0 0 6262632 669060 505488 0 0 0 0 3 4 0 0 100 0 0 0 0 6262880 669060 505488 0 0 0 5 32 80 0 0 100 0 0 0 0 6262716 669060 505488 0 0 0 0 542 749 13 0 87 0 0 0 0 6262584 669060 505488 0 0 0 0 657 947 17 0 83 0 0 0 0 6262536 669064 505484 0 0 0 5 667 1032 17 0 82 0 2 0 0 6262536 669064 505488 0 0 0 0 646 878 17 0 83 0 0 0 0 6262536 669064 505488 0 0 0 0 660 921 17 0 83 0 0 0 0 6262504 669068 505488 0 0 0 3 651 921 17 0 83 0 0 0 0 6262512 669068 505488 0 0 0 0 635 878 17 0 83 0 3 0 0 6262568 669068 505488 0 0 0 0 649 935 17 0 83 0 3 0 0 6262464 669068 505488 0 0 0 0 653 878 17 0 83 0 3 0 0 6262464 669068 505488 0 0 0 0 656 886 17 0 83 0 3 0 0 6262464 669068 505488 0 0 0 0 643 933 17 0 83 0 3 0 0 6262464 669076 505488 0 0 0 1 653 900 17 0 83 0 3 0 0 6262464 669076 505488 0 0 0 0 632 882 17 0 83 0 0 0 0 6262464 669084 505488 0 0 0 4 653 891 17 0 83 0 0 0 0 6262520 669084 505488 0 0 0 4 657 867 17 0 83 0 0 0 0 6262528 669084 505488 0 0 0 0 655 882 17 0 83 0 3 0 0 6262528 669088 505488 0 0 0 3 639 903 17 0 83 0 0 0 0 6262528 669096 505488 0 0 0 1 649 892 17 0 83 0 1 0 0 6262528 669096 505488 0 0 0 0 629 858 17 0 83 0 0 0 0 6262528 669096 505488 0 0 0 0 657 869 17 0 83 0 3 0 0 6262424 669096 505488 0 0 0 2 650 950 16 0 84 0 2 0 0 6262424 669104 505488 0 0 0 1 624 875 17 0 83 0 0 0 0 6262424 669104 505488 0 0 0 0 619 894 17 0 83 0 3 0 0 6262424 669108 505488 0 0 0 1 647 864 17 0 83 0 0 0 0 6262120 669108 505488 0 0 0 1 666 893 17 0 83 0 3 0 0 6262120 669112 505488 0 0 0 5 644 888 17 0 83 0 0 0 0 6262120 669112 505488 0 0 0 0 632 895 17 0 82 0 0 0 0 6262120 669112 505488 0 0 0 0 648 909 17 0 83 0 3 0 0 6262120 669112 505488 0 0 0 4 658 937 17 0 83 0 0 0 0 6262120 669120 505488 0 0 0 1 656 888 17 0 83 0 1 0 0 6262128 669120 505488 0 0 0 0 651 902 17 0 83 0 0 0 0 6262120 669120 505488 0 0 0 0 646 879 17 0 83 0 3 0 0 6262088 669120 505488 0 0 0 0 656 866 17 0 82 0 0 0 0 6262120 669120 505488 0 0 0 0 650 893 17 0 83 0 0 0 0 6262120 669120 505488 0 0 0 0 649 901 17 0 83 0 3 0 0 6262120 669124 505488 0 0 0 1 653 889 17 0 83 0 0 0 0 6262120 669124 505488 0 0 0 0 648 896 17 0 83 0 0 0 0 6262120 669124 505488 0 0 0 0 641 902 17 0 83 0 I have an i7, or 8 cpu's so the conversion is 17% * 8 = 1.36 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/985661 Title: High load average To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/xubuntu-desktop/+bug/985661/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
