Re: Bug? Load avg 2.0 when idle.

[Jan Knutar]

On Sunday 24 October 2004 21:29, Joerg Sommrey wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> there is a load average of 2.0+ even if the box is almost idle. (i.e. "top"
> shows just one running process: top itself.) Starting two cpu-intensive
> processes raises the load average to 4.0+.  How can I determine the
> source for the high load, or is this a bug?
> I'm running 2.6.9 on a dual-athlon box.

Look for processes stuck in D state...
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