[wellylug] ubuntu load average

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On Thu, 15 Jan 2009, David Antliff wrote:

> 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?)
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according to /proc/cpuinfo there's one cpu, one core. for what i paid, 
that seems right ;)

iostat shows a lot of zeros, unless i copy between a flash drive and HD.

the system is seriously idle, but it seems like the load averages i'm 
seeing are off by +1.


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