[WBEL-users] Strange load averages

[Dennis Gilmore]

Hi All,

Just noticed on one of my servers it is showing a very high load  it seesm its 
not on 9 but 0  just showing wrong  it lives its life as a proxy server  
running squid and gnugk.  anyone have any ideas  its only a recent thing  
that ive noticed this week.

from w
 16:41:53  up 138 days,  7:41,  1 user,  load average: 9.01, 9.01, 9.00
USER     TTY      FROM              LOGIN@   IDLE   JCPU   PCPU  WHAT
dennis   pts/1    roylnx01.royalpu  4:40pm  0.00s  0.08s  0.02s  sshd: dennis 
[priv]

from top 

 16:40:37  up 138 days,  7:40,  1 user,  load average: 9.05, 9.01, 9.00
122 processes: 119 sleeping, 3 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states:  cpu    user    nice  system    irq  softirq  iowait    idle
           total    0.0%    0.0%    0.1%   0.0%     0.1%    0.0%   99.6%
Mem:   246852k av,  243472k used,    3380k free,       0k shrd,   22472k buff
                    176660k actv,       0k in_d,    4584k in_c
Swap:  521632k av,   13408k used,  508224k free                   99208k 
cached

  PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME CPU COMMAND
10326 root      15   0  1156 1156   900 R     0.1  0.4   0:00   0 top


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Regards


Dennis Gilmore  RHCE
Network Manager
Royal Publishing
(309)693-3171 x299
7620 N. Harker Drive
Peoria IL 61615


Fedora Core release 3 (Heidelberg)
 16:40:58 up 6 days,  6:23,  3 users,  load average: 0.50, 0.35, 0.21