For some reason today my load average seemed to spike repeatedly at intervals
going over 5.38 making my mouse laggy and machine terribly slow. Its a desktop
machine.
ps -aux output
UsER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND
root 11 90.5 0.0 0 12 ?? RL 29Dec04 20354:56.82 [idle]
systat output
/0 /10 /20 /30 /40 /50 /60 /70 /80 /90 /100
root idle XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Moving along to figure out what process is idling i killed X postfix and
basically everything running except moused, cron, and inetd and the bare
minimum needed to run csh. I didnt seem to find any applications idling or
running out of the ordinary.
I cant seem to kill the [IDLE] splads, what i am curious about is how would one
diagnose such an issue? The problem started out today. My usualy load average
is about 0.5.
Machine Specs
2.6ghz p4
1gb ram 2gb swap
thanks
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