Hy all, we have the same symptom over here (R60HFA03). (Plenty of other RH machines have a load below 1.0, but most of them with a 2.6 kernel.)
It seems, that the system process "[insmod]" causes the issue. cluster1: root 568 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? DW Aug09 0:03 [insmod] cluster2: root 568 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? DW Aug11 0:00 [insmod] Insmod is in state "D" (uninterruptable sleep) and because of this counts to the "load average" calculation as 'one' active process, causing a load average of at least "1.0", I guess. Please check in your "ps auxf", if insmod is in that state, too. Would be interesting to know. Which kernelversions do these machines have? (2.4.21?) I'm no linux kernel-guru, but doesn't this look like a bug in the kernel itself? After all, "[insmod]" should not be permanently active on a linux-system, but only when modules are being installed? On other RH machines there seems to be no active "[insmod"]-process. How is that which your boxes? Regards, Dennis Breithaupt Mark Senior wrote: > cached > > I notice that even though your top output shows 1.0 for all sample > windows, the CPU states are shown as almost entirely idle. Which > doesn't seem to make a lot of sense, as a load average of 1.0 should > give you a CPU usage very near 100% over the number of CPUs - so 50% > over both CPUs on a dual-processor system. still for unknown reasons, all the rhel 3 machines i have installed show a 1.0 average load even if they're doing nothing. I presume it's a bug in procps and leave it be. and since splat for ngx is based on rhel3, it would be a safe assumption to say that they just inherited the bug. ================================================= To set vacation, Out-Of-Office, or away messages, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the BODY of the email add: set fw-1-mailinglist nomail ================================================= To unsubscribe from this mailing list, please see the instructions at http://www.checkpoint.com/services/mailing.html ================================================= If you have any questions on how to change your subscription options, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================= ================================================= To set vacation, Out-Of-Office, or away messages, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the BODY of the email add: set fw-1-mailinglist nomail ================================================= To unsubscribe from this mailing list, please see the instructions at http://www.checkpoint.com/services/mailing.html ================================================= If you have any questions on how to change your subscription options, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] =================================================
