On Tue, 1 May 2001, Sreeji K Das wrote:
|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--
|
|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
Nope the machine had just restarted and I had logged in! and the load
average remained there forever.
Kingsly
.:: Kingsly John ICQ 14787510 ::.
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.:: Linux 2.4.3 #10 Mon Apr 23 22:43:11 IST 2001 i686 ::.
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