Re: [CentOS] Load at 5, no CPU I/O or swap in use

On 8/20/2010 2:03 PM, Hakan Koseoglu wrote:

On 20 August 2010 19:58, Hakan Koseogluhakan@koseoglu.org wrote:

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That's a high load average. What's top/nmon reporting?

Hum, should have said "high load average for an idle(ish) server". Friday evening + beer + CentOS list = not a good idea.

'top' should show the busy-ish processes if they are long-running. You might be able to strace them to see what they are doing. Or something might be spawning off a bunch of short-lived processes. Those are harder to track down but you can tell if that's the case by a fast turnover in process ids. And you might catch one with a ps and find it's parent.