Re: load avg += 1
Ookhoi (ookhoi@dds.nl)
Tue, 12 Oct 1999 03:04:05 +0200
> After about 45 days of running my 2.2.12 kernel, reporting the load
> average went crazy, it always shows the value increased by 1. Though my
> CPU is idle at 90--100%, the load is always around 1.00 -- 1.10 and
> doesn't drop below 1. (PII, single processor, 233MHz).
>
> No kernel log about this strange behaviour, nothing else special that
> could help you, so I don't really hope you can tell something useful, but
> maybe...
I had something similar. Every x hour a script tried to access a mounted
dir from a server that had crashed. For some reason, the scripts didn't
die, and the load went up with 1 every x hour. Just the load; the system
was fine.
Ookhoi
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