On Wednesday 10 September 2003 10:45, Alex Shnitman wrote:
> And in any case, I'd really like to understand how it's possible to have
> very light CPU load and a high load average. If I understand correctly,
> the latter is the average of the number of processes ready to run at any
> given moment. In that case, why is the CPU load so low -- why aren't
> they running?
The load average is the load on the system including IO, which you can't see
in procps. I have the same problem, but with network streams as well, and the
main problems is that I didn't even find a way to measure which process does
the most heavy IO usage, unlike CPU usage which is easy to pin-point.
--
Oded
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The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age
brings wisdom.
-- H. L. Mencken
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