[RndTbl] load 27?

Adam Thompson athompso at athompso.net
Sat Mar 5 16:25:03 CST 2016


That's legit (at least potentially).  Means there's 27 processes in the 
run queue.  Most likely all sitting in IOWAIT on a shared resource, 
otherwise your system would be pretty sluggish.
-Adam


On 16-03-05 04:23 PM, Trevor Cordes wrote:
> Huh???  My load has been stuck at 27-ish for an hour now even
> after I killed all the CPU and mem hogs, and I'm stumped...
> How can idle be around 90% and load avg be 27?  System feels
> a bit sluggish, but not load 27 sluggish!  Quad core system.
> (And yes, "daily" is supposed to be high CPU, but it's niced
> out the wazoo.)
>
> top - 16:20:12 up 31 days, 12:26, 58 users,  load average: 27.17, 27.20, 27.23
> Tasks: 496 total,   1 running, 481 sleeping,  13 stopped,   1 zombie
> %Cpu(s):  1.2 us,  0.8 sy,  8.4 ni, 89.5 id,  0.2 wa,  0.0 hi,  0.0 si,  0.0 st
> KiB Mem :  8174168 total,  2590468 free,  2260492 used,  3323208 buff/cache
> KiB Swap:  8376316 total,  7449712 free,   926604 used.  5777204 avail Mem
>
>    PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S  %CPU %MEM     TIME+ COMMAND
> 11450 trevor    39  19  151372  52464  10000 S  33.4  0.6   0:12.71 daily
>   2170 root      20   0  448728 132620  23652 S   3.0  1.6 644:53.37 Xorg
>   4190 trevor    20   0  929896 105796  11352 S   2.6  1.3 146:56.66 gnome-terminal-
>   2794 trevor    20   0  267904   7628   6020 S   1.0  0.1 394:39.23 gkrellm
>   4492 trevor    20   0  773060  17256  12936 S   1.0  0.2  65:17.14 audacious
> ...
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