[CentOS] Hlp with server load

Mon Dec 19 13:32:02 UTC 2005
Scot L. Harris <webid at cfl.rr.com>

On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 07:37, Chris Mason (Lists) wrote:
> I have a system that is running into problems with high load, however, 
> even when I shut down everything that could be loading the system, the 
> load continues to rise. I can't see anything that is causing the load. 
> Any ideas?
> 
> 08:36:06  up 1 day, 10:57,  3 users,  load average: 19.98, 19.30, 17.29
> 90 processes: 75 sleeping, 2 running, 13 zombie, 0 stopped
> CPU states:  cpu    user    nice  system    irq  softirq  iowait    idle
>            total    0.1%    0.0%    0.0%   0.1%     0.0%    0.0%   99.6%
> Mem:   511916k av,  317756k used,  194160k free,       0k shrd,   35040k 
> buff
>                     208896k actv,   67280k in_d,   10488k in_c
> Swap: 2048276k av,    5872k used, 2042404k free                  172064k 
> cached

Have you tried running top to see which processes are ready to run?