Re: high load but idle CPU

1999-05-27 Thread Joey Hess
George Bonser wrote: > Any process involved with heavy net activity in an SMP system with 2.2.3 > will do this. I had problems with web servers doing it. 2.2.9 seems OK. > 2.2.6/7 were disasters. 2.2.5 seemed to work, though. Hm, could you expand on that? I've been using 2.2.7 for a while, what pr

Re: high load but idle CPU

1999-05-27 Thread Max
* George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [05/26/99 18:59] wrote: > Do a ps -ax and see how many processes you have stuck in D state ;). Then > go and get 2.2.9 Yup, that explains it! I have 5 sxid processes in D state. Hmmmcould it have something to do with the fact that I installed arla 5 days ag

high load but idle CPU

1999-05-27 Thread Max
I have a dual-CPU system running potato with kernel 2.2.3. Here's what top reports: 6:30pm up 36 days, 20:55, 10 users, load average: 5.22, 5.28, 5.17 152 processes: 147 sleeping, 2 running, 2 zombie, 1 stopped CPU states: 0.4% user, 1.5% system, 0.0% nice, 97.9% idle Mem: 516688K av, 4802