 | | | High load average but nothing going on???? | High load average but nothing going on???? 2005-06-14 - By nodata
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> Hi,
>
> I have a Dell PE2650 running RHAS 3.0 u4 (2.4.21-9.0.1.ELsmp) and it
> seems to be exhibiting the behaviour of showing a high load average
> (circa 7) when a vmstat shows nothing going on. ie nothing in the run
> queue or blocked queue and no IO and no processing on the CPU.
>
> What is going on here - I cannot see why the load average
> (cat /proc/loadaverage and top) is so high?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
>
> Regards
>
> Gary Mansell
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Any log messages? Any nfs problems? What does iostat say?
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