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Date:      Fri, 9 Mar 2001 11:44:35 -0500
From:      Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu>
To:        Mikhail Teterin <mi@aldan.algebra.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Stable <stable@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: load stays at 1 on an idle machine
Message-ID:  <20010309114435.B45561@ohm.physics.purdue.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200103091539.f29Fdra00972@aldan.algebra.com>; from mi@aldan.algebra.com on Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 10:39:53AM -0500
References:  <200103091539.f29Fdra00972@aldan.algebra.com>

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On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 10:39:53AM -0500, Mikhail Teterin wrote:
> I was running a single instance of SETI@Home, when I observed the load
> of 2. I stopped seti and the load went down to one. It stays there for
> about 20 hours already. The machine is idle:
>=20
> last pid:  1886;  load averages:  1.00,  1.00,  1.00    up 0+20:36:36  10=
:33:11
> 16 processes:  1 running, 15 sleeping
> CPU states:  0.4% user,  0.0% nice,  0.0% system,  0.0% interrupt, 99.6% =
idle
> Mem: 7136K Active, 20M Inact, 9024K Wired, 56K Cache, 22M Buf, 88M Free
> Swap: 256M Total, 256M Free
>=20
>   PID USERNAME PRI NICE  SIZE    RES STATE    TIME   WCPU    CPU COMMAND
> [....]

top(1) doesn't show all stats relevant to the load average.  Check
vmstat/systat/iostat/netstat/etc.  Besides, the load average is a
worthless metric if you ask me.

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wca

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