On Friday 13 March 2009, Bogdan-Andrei Iancu wrote: > Hi Jeff, > > A simple google on the topic "top command load average" > > http://www.teamquest.com/resources/gunther/display/5/ > > See starting with section 2.2 > > Shortly, is about the number of processes in your case.
It's the number of _active_ processes. Or to be more precise it's the number of processes waiting in the queue to get scheduled to execute on the CPU. You cannot get a 3.0 load average with all processes being idle, so something is definitely abnormal. You need 3 processes loaded at 100% to reach a load average of 3.0 (with 1 CPU). But I'm curious if opensips can really trigger this, or is just a glitch in the OS reporting the load average? An interesting piece of information would be to know if the opensips processes have any incoming/outgoing network queues (seen with netstat -pan | grep opensips). > > Regards, > Bogdan > > Jeff Pyle wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Today I noticed Opensips is causing my machine to go to a load > > average of 3.00, yet it’s 100% idle. I can’t figure out what’s > > causing this or how both are possible. I’ve never encountered it > > before. > > > > top - 12:35:45 up 16 days, 1:33, 3 users, load average: 3.00, 3.00, > > 2.91 Tasks: 120 total, 2 running, 118 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie > > Cpu(s): 0.0%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni,100.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, > > 0.0%st > > > > When I stop Opensips, the load average drops to 0.00 or 0.01. If I > > start Opensips again, even if it doesn’t process any calls, the load > > average rises to 3.00 again. > > > > Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can diagnose the cause of > > this? > > > > > > Thanks, > > Jeff > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >--- > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Users mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.opensips.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.opensips.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users -- Dan _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.opensips.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users
