On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 8:19 PM, Juan Miguel Paredes
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Note that those two tasks are on 100% CPU.  Top's "load" information,
> in your case, could be more related to cpu usage than memory usage,
> since you're not using too much swap.  Search the related man page and
> documentation for top, for better understanding.

A simplified but very useful explanation of the load averages is in

http://www.lifeaftercoffee.com/2006/03/13/unix-load-averages-explained/

with references to more detailed sources.  Maybe is there a bottleneck
on disk, cpu, network, or other resources, especially related to the
interesting tasks you found?

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