On Fri, Dec 02, 2016 at 09:55:23AM +0000, Joe Holden wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> Is anyone else seeing abnormally high load averages on recent snapshots?
>
> Seeing load reported as ~1 on idle machines (both VM and physical, amd64 and
> octeon):
>
> 9:48AM up 34 mins, 1 user, load averages: 1.21, 1.13, 1.01
> (octeon snapshot as of 30th Nov)
This is known and due to a different way some kernel threads operate.
Maybe a bit unexpected, but not harmful, the processor(s) as seen in
top(1) should be idle most if the time.
-Otto
>
> Another example on KVM guest:
>
> USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND
> root 1 0.0 0.1 416 496 ?? Is 6:54PM 0:01.23 /sbin/init
> root 50624 0.0 0.1 632 536 ?? Is 6:55PM 0:00.38 dhclient:
> vio2 [priv] (dhclient)
> _dhcp 42339 0.0 0.1 736 696 ?? Isp 6:55PM 0:00.19 dhclient:
> vio2 (dhclient)
> root 26736 0.0 0.4 364 1976 ?? Isp 6:55PM 0:00.27 syslogd:
> [priv] (syslogd)
> _syslogd 7398 0.0 0.3 968 1488 ?? Sp 6:55PM 0:00.68
> /usr/sbin/syslogd
> root 64373 0.0 0.3 872 1452 ?? Is 6:55PM 0:00.12
> /usr/sbin/sshd
> root 38751 0.0 0.2 676 1188 ?? Isp 6:55PM 0:00.35
> /usr/sbin/cron
> root 80570 0.0 0.7 980 3396 ?? Ss 9:20PM 0:54.17 sshd:
> root@ttyp0 (sshd)
> root 30271 0.0 0.1 612 744 p0 Ssp 9:20PM 0:00.34 -ksh (ksh)
> root 84509 0.0 0.1 356 412 p0 R+p/0 4:03AM 0:00.00 ps -auxw
> root 99508 0.0 0.1 608 736 00 Is+p 6:55PM 0:02.80 -ksh (ksh)
>
> 4:03AM up 9:09, 2 users, load averages: 1.26, 1.18, 1.11
>
> (amd64 snapshot as of 27th Nov)
>
> Thanks
