On Wednesday 05 December 2007 12:58, Kain, Becki (B.) wrote: > I have 2 suse boxes that are web servers with load averages > consistently above 65 (they are 4 processor intel boxes). Top shows > : > > top - 15:52:36 up 359 days, 19:01, 3 users, load average: 66.08, > 66.18, 66.10 > Tasks: 393 total, 1 running, 392 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie > Cpu(s): 35.9% us, 61.7% sy, 0.0% ni, 0.0% id, 0.0% wa, 0.1% hi, > 2.3% si > Mem: 8305936k total, 7048988k used, 1256948k free, 294540k > buffers Swap: 1048560k total, 148k used, 1048412k free, > 5520856k cached > > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND > 20406 www 15 0 72072 12m 5284 S 15.1 0.2 1574:17 httpd > 7870 www 15 0 71580 11m 5284 S 15.1 0.1 2344:59 httpd > 6166 www 16 0 72824 12m 5284 S 14.8 0.2 4807:47 httpd > 26408 www 17 0 71404 10m 5372 S 10.5 0.1 8030:04 httpd > 10542 www 16 0 65032 10m 5284 S 10.2 0.1 11612:40 httpd > 30603 www 16 0 73300 12m 5284 S 10.2 0.2 17962:34 httpd > 25364 www 16 0 70488 10m 5272 S 10.2 0.1 4681:35 httpd > > > I'm confused - and I'll admit that it's been a while since I've been > a sys ad. Httpd runs in user space, right? So why am I not seeing > system processes at the top of top? Or am I reading this > incorrectly? What more can I be looking at to see what in system > space is eating the system?
I don't think your system is being "eaten." You have four processors, only one active process (at the moment you captured this snapshot), and that would have to be top itself, since by definition it must be running when it issues the various system calls (mostly reading from files in /proc) to get the raw data it presents. Furthermore, you CPU utilization is only about 36%. That's not an indication of an overtaxed system. The so-called "load average" is a very misleading indicator of system load. You're best looking at more basic indicators of system activity and load such as CPU utilization, I/O activity and swap rates. > Thanks in advance Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
