Re: CPU Load average VS Idle %
- From: Aragorn <stryder@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 15:49:53 GMT
On Friday 27 October 2006 16:55, howa stood up and addressed the masses
in /comp.os.linux.misc/ as follows...:
using the top command, e.g.
top -d 5
the load average is : 2.59, 2.18, 1.90
However, the CPU Idle % is always 9x %
is this normal?
No, it isn't. What the load average is showing is the (average) amount of
processes in the wait queue.
A load average like yours shows that you have an average of two processes
(during the last minute) in the wait queue, which means something is
hogging up your processor(s). Perhaps there is a bug in your kernel that
keeps your CPU from accepting new processes while it is actually idle.
Check in /top/ or any similar utility for what consumes most of your CPU
cycles. If you can't find anything there, then I would suspect a kernel
flaw.
--
With kind regards,
*Aragorn*
(registered GNU/Linux user #223157)
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