I suggest you to take a look at the meaning of the data showed by "/proc/loadavg".
See: http://www.luci.org/luci-discuss/200210/msg00055.html for more details. In my opinion your loadavg of 3.0 means only that in your application there is an average of 3 task waiting for running on the CPU. This in general doesn't mean that the CPU load must be 100 %. Maybe there should be some scheduler issues. If you take a look into your app sources maybe you can know more about what happens. -----Messaggio originale----- Da: diba...@libero.it [mailto:diba...@libero.it] Inviato: martedì 22 settembre 2009 10.15 A: Bosi Daniele; linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Oggetto: R: High load average but low cpu (xenomai can be the explanation?) It is an AgentX subagent, it does a lot of things like accessing the hardware, handling messages from the main snmp agent received from an unix socket, writing files on jffs2 partition, polling hardware for alarms. If I kill it, the load goes down. Anyway the subagent only takes 2-3% of the CPU.. Thank you, Antonio. >Da: daniele.b...@mta.it > >Can you give us some more details about your app? >Is it multithread or single process? >What do the process do? > >Bye Daniele > > > >-----Messaggio originale----- >Da: linuxppc-dev- bounces+daniele.bosi=mta...@lists.ozlabs.org [mailto:linuxppc-dev- bounces+daniele.bosi=mta...@lists.ozlabs.org] Per conto di diba...@libero.it >Oggetto: High load average but low cpu (xenomai can be the explanation?) > >Hi, > >I have an MPC880 @133MHz. If I look into the load (with uptime) I get >values around 3.0 but my CPU is always under 5 percent (top). How could I >explain this? I'm using linux 2.6.19 with xenomai but no xenomai application is >running at all. I have a cramfs on a nor flash. What could be the problem? If I >kill the process I developed the average load goes down. > >Thank you, >Adi >_______________________________________________ >Linuxppc-dev mailing list >Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org >https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc- dev >_______________________________________________ >Linuxppc-dev mailing list >Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org >https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev > _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
