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?