[WBEL-users] Strange load averages

[Dennis Gilmore]

On Tuesday 01 March 2005 05:27 pm, Kirby C. Bohling wrote:
> Are you sure anything is wrong?  There are a number of states that
> will "count" towards your load.
> (I'm way out of my depth in terms of kernel knowledge, but I can
> read it enough to figure out which things count towards you load).
>
> My guess is if you do a ps auxwwww and count up the processes in
> state D, you'll find 8-9 of them.
>
>  Thanks,
>   Kirby
>
Turns out it was the backup exec process it had locked up for some reason i 
started restarting services to see what was going on.  i only had a couple of 
processes in a running state.  Ive been holding off physically moving the box 
because i didnt want to reboot.  but its done now.  :)  thanks everyone.
-- 
Regards


Dennis Gilmore  RHCE
Network Manager
Royal Publishing
(309)693-3171 x299
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Fedora Core release 3 (Heidelberg)
 17:50:25 up 6 days,  7:32,  3 users,  load average: 0.01, 0.01, 0.00