On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Post, Mark K wrote: > Sergey, > > Nothing is taking all the CPU. The system is idling. That's why it's a > bug. :)
Load average doesn't mean CPU. I don't kn0w just what it _does_ mean, but during times of stress I''ve seen high loadaverage AND high wait. I/O contributes to loadaverage. There was nothing else active when I ran this test, and as you can see there was little CPU work involved. [root@orange root]# uptime;time dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/null bs=1024k count=1024;uptime 5:42am up 5 days, 10:14, 19 users, load average: 0.17, 0.25, 0.15 1024+0 records in 1024+0 records out real 1m22.574s user 0m0.018s sys 0m13.588s 5:44am up 5 days, 10:15, 19 users, load average: 0.87, 0.46, 0.23 [root@orange root]# -- Cheers John. Join the "Linux Support by Small Businesses" list at http://mail.computerdatasafe.com.au/mailman/listinfo/lssb
