[wellylug] High load averages but no apparent cause

Atom Smasher atom at smasher.org
Thu Mar 25 15:10:04 NZDT 2010


i haven't been following the thread... but terra has a toshiba satellite 
laptop with ubuntu, and it's always got a load average that's >2-3.

it runs fine, but reports a high load average, even when top says it's 
idle.

some day i might dig deeper... but it really doesn't seem like the system 
is adversely affected.


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