On Tue, 1 May 2001, Kingsly John wrote:
> Can someone explain how this is possible ?
> load average is 1 (sometimes higher) but cpu utilisation is close to 0 !
> --snip from top--
> 9:32pm up 35 min, 1 user, load average: 1.00, 1.00, 0.70
> 39 processes: 38 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
> CPU0 states: 0.0% user, 0.5% system, 0.0% nice, 99.0% idle
> CPU1 states: 0.0% user, 1.2% system, 0.0% nice, 98.2% idle
> --snip from top--
>
> Kingsly
Probably you had a heavy duty task running (or a lot of apps. running) &
it terminated just b4 you started top. So when top sees that the CPU
utilisation is almost 0. But load average is for the past 1 minute. Since
the app. was running in the past few minutes, load average is hight. If
you run top for a few minutes, you'll see that the load average comes
down.
[load average = avg. no. of processes ready to run during the last 1
minute.]
Sreeji
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