[wellylug] CPU load

[andrej at paradise.net.nz]

Quoting Gordon Paynter <lists at paynter.info>:
> run top, I can see one process that registers in the %CPU column: it
> gets 
> 99.9%, even though it is niced down to 10 (i.e. it is low-priority).
How about telling us what that process is?
As for the load average: it's made up of both
CPU and I/O ... so if you had that box being a
bridge between two high-speed interfaces that
may be one thing to investigate, or if the hdd
was running without dma and MySQL was quite busy ...


Cheers,
Andrej