Re: 99.6% idle 5.16 load

2003-01-13 Thread Gabor Szabo
On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, Nadav Har'El wrote: (Oh, and Gabor, is my guess even correct? Do you have any D-state processes?) sorry for not responding earlier but only now I could check it on that machine and it seems to be the right answer I have now 2 processes in the D state and 3-4 in the DN

Re: 99.6% idle 5.16 load

2003-01-13 Thread Christoph Bugel
On 2003-01-13 Gabor Szabo wrote: Now why does the machine not responding sometimes ? I guess at this point I have to go back to man ps. Since NFS was mentioned in this thread, and since I can only guess, I will say that I once experienced delays when typing commands into my shell, and it

Re: 99.6% idle 5.16 load

2003-01-13 Thread Christoph Bugel
On 2003-01-13 Christoph Bugel wrote: On 2003-01-13 Gabor Szabo wrote: Now why does the machine not responding sometimes ? I guess at this point I have to go back to man ps. Since NFS was mentioned in this thread, and since I can only guess, I will say that I once experienced delays

Re: 99.6% idle 5.16 load

2003-01-13 Thread Henry Ficher
Gabor Szabo wrote: On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, Nadav Har'El wrote: (Oh, and Gabor, is my guess even correct? Do you have any D-state processes?) sorry for not responding earlier but only now I could check it on that machine and it seems to be the right answer I have now 2 processes in the

99.6% idle 5.16 load

2003-01-12 Thread Gabor Szabo
I have a box with RH 7.3 that behaves strangely. Sometimes (some say but I cannot confirm that on every saturday ) it reaches a very high load. Earlier they rebooted it but today I was checking it. It had 5.16 load and 99.6% idle time. What can be the cause ? What else should I check for this

Re: 99.6% idle 5.16 load

2003-01-12 Thread Henry Ficher
Gabor Szabo wrote: I have a box with RH 7.3 that behaves strangely. Sometimes (some say but I cannot confirm that on every saturday ) it reaches a very high load. Earlier they rebooted it but today I was checking it. It had 5.16 load and 99.6% idle time. What can be the cause ? Weekly cron

Re: 99.6% idle 5.16 load

2003-01-12 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sun, Jan 12, 2003, Gabor Szabo wrote about 99.6% idle 5.16 load: It had 5.16 load and 99.6% idle time. What can be the cause ? What else should I check for this ? If you have load 5 but no process is using CPU time, it is most likely that you have 5 processed in the D (uninterruptable

Re: 99.6% idle 5.16 load

2003-01-12 Thread guy keren
On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, Nadav Har'El wrote: If you have load 5 but no process is using CPU time, it is most likely that you have 5 processed in the D (uninterruptable sleep) state. Run ps aux and look for a D in the STAT column to confirm this hunch. this sounds odd - a process in the 'D' state

Re: 99.6% idle 5.16 load

2003-01-12 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sun, Jan 12, 2003, guy keren wrote about Re: 99.6% idle 5.16 load: If you have load 5 but no process is using CPU time, it is most likely that you have 5 processed in the D (uninterruptable sleep) state. Run ps aux and look for a D in the STAT column to confirm this hunch. this sounds

Re: 99.6% idle 5.16 load

2003-01-12 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 10:21:09PM +0200, Nadav Har'El wrote: On Sun, Jan 12, 2003, guy keren wrote about Re: 99.6% idle 5.16 load: If you have load 5 but no process is using CPU time, it is most likely that you have 5 processed in the D (uninterruptable sleep) state. Run ps aux and look