On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 03:12:00PM +0100, Andrew Haley wrote: > On 07/12/2012 03:02 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 02:29:54PM +0100, Andrew Haley wrote: > >> On 07/12/2012 12:00 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: > >>> So my question is since CPU usage is already so low, what could be > >>> driving up the system load? This is bugging me since I also see a > >>> general sluggishness compared to a much faster system early this year. > >> > >> top should show you. How much time in idle and wait states? > >> > > > > They are as I would expect, large idle times, and almost no wait time: > > > > top - 15:59:42 up 3:24, 6 users, load average: 0.74, 0.87, 0.95 > > Tasks: 257 total, 1 running, 254 sleeping, 1 stopped, 1 zombie > > Cpu0: 2.6%us, 4.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 92.7%id, 0.0%wa, 0.7%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st > > Cpu1: 1.0%us, 0.3%sy, 0.0%ni, 98.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.3%hi, 0.3%si, 0.0%st > > Cpu2: 4.3%us, 4.3%sy, 0.0%ni, 91.4%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st > > Cpu3: 0.3%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 99.7%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st > > Mem: 3843356k total, 3471700k used, 371656k free, 206600k buffers > > Swap: 6029308k total, 0k used, 6029308k free, 1209176k cached > > That's very odd. Processes in 'D' = uninterruptible sleep ? > I looked through the entire process list all but 3 were "sleeping", 2 were stopped (I did that in a terminal, a less instance and an emacsclient instance) and one was zombie (again I know this one, it's the src-hilite attached to the stopped less instance). > Andrew. > -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
