[wellylug] ubuntu load average

David Antliff david.antliff at gmail.com
Thu Jan 15 22:53:12 NZDT 2009


On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 22:45, Atom Smasher <atom at smasher.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Jan 2009, David Antliff wrote:
>
>> Are all three load averages > 1.0?
> =============
>
> yup. 1.0 is the lowest i've seen for all three.


If CPU usage in top is low but load averages are high then you might
have something leaning heavily on I/O.

What does 'iostat' say? It's part of the sysstat package on Ubuntu.

Does the machine have more than one CPU (e.g. dual core?)

-- David.



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