[CentOS] Wield CPU load problem??

Tue May 8 15:59:20 UTC 2007
Jim Perrin <jperrin at gmail.com>

On 5/8/07, mcclnx mcc <mcclnx at yahoo.com.tw> wrote:
> Recently we installed CENTOS 4.4 on DELL 2650 server.
> We found CPU load always on 3 and up if we run "top"
> or "w" to check.  There is NO application run on this
> server why CPU load so heavy?

Load showed by top and w isn't cpu usage.  The load average is the sum
of the run queue length and the number of jobs currently running on
the CPUs. If you have a process waiting to access the disk for
something, you can drive your load average pretty high, while using
virtually no cpu.


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