David,
it may be a kernel process that's hung up somewhere. Having just had my
machine doing weird things with load, check and see if you have
chkrootkit installed - it hung my machine for quite some time for no
apparent reason. Other than that, send a ps -ef it shows everything.
Maybe with a little analysis something will come up.
Regards,
Angus Beath
On Wed, 2002-03-27 at 22:43, David Savolainen wrote:
> Damian wrote:
> >
> > El mi�, 27-03-2002 a las 00:30, David Savolainen escribi�:
> > > hello all,
> > > Ever since I upgraded to 8.2, my load average will not drop below 1.00.
> > > >From what I have been able to determine, the load average is a measure
> > > of jobs in the run queue. What job could be permanently stuck in the run
> > > queue? How do I clear it (whatever "it" is) and bring things back to
> > > normal? ps does not seem to indicate anything continuously running. In
> > > fact, kapm-idled seems to be awol. Any ideas about what could be
> > > happening?
> > >
> > > Many thanks
> > >
> > > David
> >
> > it's probably a zombie/hung application. run kpm, top, gtop or whatever
> > task manager you like, sort processes by CPU time the are taking,
> > anything above 30% is high. so kill it and see what happens.
> >
> > anyway, note that prcesses that have the string " idle " in their names
> > are not necesarily taking up processor cycles. for example, if you
> > have a process taking 95% of CPU time called kernel-idle
> > ( just making the name up ) it just means that CPU is idle 95%
> > of it's time.
> >
> > HTH
> >
> > Damian
> >
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>
> Thanks for the response.
> When my system only has top and X running, the only processes using cpu
> cycles are top and X. The precent of cpu cycles usually stays below
> 1%. Although, Top always shows 1 process running. Shutting down X does
> not bring my load average below 1.00, so the culprit can't be X or an X
> app. Even when I have not apps of any kind running, my load aveage
> stays nailed at 1.00. Attached is the output of ps -aux. Maybe someone
> can see what I am missing.
>
> USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
> root 1 0.0 0.1 1412 504 ? S Mar26 0:06 init
> root 2 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Mar26 0:00 [keventd]
> root 3 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Mar26 0:00 [kapmd]
> root 4 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SWN Mar26 0:00
> [ksoftirqd_CPU0]
> root 5 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Mar26 0:02 [kswapd]
> root 6 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Mar26 0:00 [bdflush]
> root 7 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Mar26 0:00
> [kupdated]
> root 8 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW< Mar26 0:00
> [mdrecoveryd]
> root 11 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Mar26 0:00
> [kreiserfsd]
> root 65 0.0 0.2 1772 804 ? S Mar26 0:00 devfsd
> /dev
> root 278 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Mar26 0:00
> [pagebuf_daemon]
> root 603 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Mar26 0:00 [khubd]
> root 1020 0.0 0.1 1512 548 ? S Mar26 0:01 syslogd
> -m 0
> root 1029 0.0 0.2 2012 1020 ? S Mar26 0:00 klogd -2
> daemon 1083 0.0 0.0 1436 284 ? S Mar26 0:00
> /usr/sbin/atd
> root 1206 0.0 0.4 4848 1880 ? S Mar26 0:00 cupsd
> root 1340 0.0 0.1 4204 708 ? D Mar26 0:00
> /usr/sbin/amd -F /etc/amd.conf -a /net
> root 1378 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Mar26 0:00 [rpciod]
> rpc 1395 0.0 0.1 1544 460 ? S Mar26 0:00 portmap
> root 1468 0.0 0.1 1520 584 ? S Mar26 0:00
> /usr/sbin/automount --timeout 60 /misc file /etc/auto.misc
> root 1485 0.0 0.1 1520 580 ? S Mar26 0:00
> /usr/sbin/automount --timeout 60 /net program /etc/auto.net
> root 1599 0.0 0.1 1452 420 ? S Mar26 0:00 gpm -t
> imps2 -m /dev/psaux
> root 1700 0.0 0.1 1620 608 ? S Mar26 0:00 crond
> xfs 1741 0.0 1.3 6460 5156 ? S Mar26 0:00 xfs -port
> -1 -daemon -droppriv -user xfs
> root 2030 0.0 0.3 2396 1296 tty1 S Mar26 0:00 login --
> david
> root 2031 0.0 0.1 1380 408 tty2 S Mar26 0:00
> /sbin/mingetty tty2
> root 2032 0.0 0.1 1380 408 tty3 S Mar26 0:00
> /sbin/mingetty tty3
> root 2033 0.0 0.1 1380 408 tty4 S Mar26 0:00
> /sbin/mingetty tty4
> root 2038 0.0 0.1 1380 408 tty5 S Mar26 0:00
> /sbin/mingetty tty5
> root 2039 0.0 0.1 1380 408 tty6 S Mar26 0:00
> /sbin/mingetty tty6
> david 2855 0.0 0.4 2788 1592 vc/1 S Mar26 0:00 -bash
> david 2940 0.0 0.3 2420 1200 vc/1 S Mar26 0:00 /bin/sh
> /usr/openwin/bin/startx
> david 2957 0.0 0.1 2268 640 vc/1 S Mar26 0:00 xinit
> /home/david/.xinitrc -- -deferglyphs 16
> root 2959 0.1 3.0 56724 11728 ? R Mar26 0:35
> /etc/X11/X :0 -deferglyphs 16
> david 3053 0.0 0.0 2416 8 vc/1 S Mar26 0:00 sh
> /home/david/.xinitrc
> david 3054 0.0 0.1 2976 652 vc/1 S Mar26 0:01
> /usr/X11R6/bin/fvwm2
> david 3159 0.0 0.2 2588 1140 vc/1 S Mar26 0:00
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fvwm2/FvwmButtons 7 4 /etc/X11/fvwm2/menu 0 8
> david 3161 0.0 0.1 2604 732 vc/1 S Mar26 0:00
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fvwm2/FvwmAnimate 9 4 /etc/X11/fvwm2/menu 0 8
> david 3163 0.0 0.3 3340 1508 vc/1 S Mar26 0:00 xclock
> david 3165 0.0 0.2 2496 860 vc/1 S Mar26 0:00
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fvwm2/FvwmPager 11 4 /etc/X11/fvwm2/menu 0 8 0 0
> david 3167 0.0 0.4 3604 1624 vc/1 S Mar26 0:00 xload
> -jumpscroll 1 -nolabel
> david 3169 0.0 0.4 3756 1692 vc/1 S Mar26 0:00 xbiff
> david 3170 0.0 0.3 3284 1472 vc/1 S Mar26 0:00 xeyes
> david 4037 0.0 0.2 2408 1128 vc/1 S Mar26 0:00 /bin/sh
> -c /usr/lib/cups/scripts/cupsWebAdmin 1>/dev/null 2>/dev/nu
> david 4038 0.0 0.3 2412 1160 tty1 S Mar26 0:00 /bin/sh
> /usr/lib/cups/scripts/cupsWebAdmin
> david 4039 0.0 5.8 29628 22328 tty1 S Mar26 0:15
> /usr/lib/netscape/netscape-communicator http://localhost:631/
> david 4090 0.0 0.9 17272 3712 tty1 S Mar26 0:00 (dns
> helper)
> david 7221 0.0 0.6 4248 2676 ? S Mar26 0:00 oafd
> --ac-activate --ior-output-fd=11
> david 7262 0.0 0.6 5456 2328 vc/1 S Mar26 0:20
> /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm.real -name Terminal -sb -sl 1500 -ls
> david 7271 0.0 0.4 2796 1604 pts/0 S Mar26 0:00 -bash
> david 7295 0.0 0.4 7448 1824 ? S Mar26 0:01
> /usr/bin/medusa-idled
> david 7400 0.0 0.2 5456 836 vc/1 S Mar26 0:00
> /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm.real -name Terminal -sb -sl 1500 -ls
> david 7409 0.0 0.1 2796 644 pts/1 S Mar26 0:00 -bash
> david 15104 0.4 0.2 2116 1032 pts/0 S 05:54 0:09 top
> david 15414 0.7 0.8 5620 3228 vc/1 S 06:30 0:00
> /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm.real -name Terminal -sb -sl 1500 -ls
> david 15423 0.5 0.4 2796 1604 pts/2 S 06:30 0:00 -bash
> david 15482 0.0 0.2 2840 896 pts/2 R 06:30 0:00 ps -aux
>
> Thanks a lot!
> David
>
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