On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 07:37, Chris Mason (Lists) wrote:
> I have a system that is running into problems with high load, however,
> even when I shut down everything that could be loading the system, the
> load continues to rise. I can't see anything that is causing the load.
> Any ideas?
>
> 08:36:06 up 1 day, 10:57, 3 users, load average: 19.98, 19.30, 17.29
> 90 processes: 75 sleeping, 2 running, 13 zombie, 0 stopped
> CPU states: cpu user nice system irq softirq iowait idle
> total 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 99.6%
> Mem: 511916k av, 317756k used, 194160k free, 0k shrd, 35040k
> buff
> 208896k actv, 67280k in_d, 10488k in_c
> Swap: 2048276k av, 5872k used, 2042404k free 172064k
> cached
Have you tried running top to see which processes are ready to run?
