[wellylug] ubuntu load average

Tim O'Brien timalot at gmail.com
Fri Jan 16 13:29:23 NZDT 2009


Something could be forking alot of processes and then quiting,
bringing the average up.

Tim

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 10:26 PM, Atom Smasher <atom at smasher.org> wrote:
> my wife's laptop is running ubuntu 8.10. with top showing the system at
> close to 100% idle (>96%) i haven't seen the load averages drop below 1.0.
> i'd expect it to be closer to 0.0 when it's >95% idle. any ideas why the
> load averages seem skewed? thanks...
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