On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 11:49 AM, Juan Miguel Paredes <
[email protected]> wrote:

>
> On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 7:08 PM, Mike314 <[email protected]> wrote:
> >  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  CODE
> > COMMAND
> > 23494 user1      29   4 2392m 2.3g 181m R  100 14.9  21:55.09  10m
> > task1
> >  2372 user2      29   4  985m 967m 5320 R  100  6.1  10:56.80  10m
> > task2
> > As you can see there are only two active tasks with plenty of free
> > memory but the load is "5.06"!
> >
> > How can it be? What can I do to return load to normal value?
> >
>
> 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.  Just guessing,
> but... are those two tasks really taking advantage of the
> multi-processing?  Maybe the "atop" command, if available, could give
> you more information.
>
> HTH,
>
> Juan.
>
> >
>

Those tasks a the only active (using more than 1% of the CPU). The load "5"
came from some other place I can't find.

atop is an interesting tool. I will look at it closely. Thanks.

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