[ Monday, March 13, 2000 ] Paul Nevin wrote:
> I have just installed Mandrake Linux 7.0 on my new Abit BP6 motherboard
> (dual 400MHz celrons 256Mb RAM 18Gb ATA66 HDD) with the stock kernel.. I was
> just a little amazed to discover that my system load never falls under 1.0
> even without anything running.
Ok, aside from the possibility that something is actually running and
taking up that much CPU, the other times I've seen this (quad P6/200
doing far too much NFS client work) were D-state (uninterruptible sleep)
processes that must have kept a dummy entry in the run queue... (in my
particular case, 9 stuck df's that kept a very-idle-machine's load
avg pegged at 9.00 and higher.
Perhaps it's worth checking "ps aux|grep D" for such processes. top won't
typically show them high enough since they're not taking any CPU :)
James
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