Why is my load stuck around 3? top - 01:19:55 up 146 days, 5:53, 2 users, load average: 3.00, 2.95, 2.52 Tasks: 121 total, 1 running, 120 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 0.0% us, 0.3% sy, 0.0% ni, 99.7% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si Mem: 1928300k total, 1911640k used, 16660k free, 10760k buffers Swap: 2031608k total, 224k used, 2031384k free, 1561196k cached top - 01:20:22 up 146 days, 5:54, 2 users, load average: 3.06, 2.97, 2.54 Tasks: 121 total, 1 running, 120 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 0.0% us, 0.2% sy, 0.0% ni, 99.8% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si Mem: 1928300k total, 1911192k used, 17108k free, 10816k buffers Swap: 2031608k total, 224k used, 2031384k free, 1561276k cached top - 01:21:14 up 146 days, 5:54, 2 users, load average: 3.02, 2.97, 2.56 Tasks: 121 total, 1 running, 120 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 0.0% us, 0.0% sy, 0.0% ni, 100.0% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si Mem: 1928300k total, 1911448k used, 16852k free, 10912k buffers Swap: 2031608k total, 224k used, 2031384k free, 1561180k cached $ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 15 model : 75 model name : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+ stepping : 2 cpu MHz : 1800.178 cache size : 512 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 2 core id : 0 cpu cores : 2 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext lm 3dnowext 3dnow pni cx16 bogomips : 3603.04 TLB size : 1088 4K pages clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: ts fid vid ttp [4] [5] processor : 1 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 15 model : 75 model name : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+ stepping : 2 cpu MHz : 1800.178 cache size : 512 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 2 core id : 1 cpu cores : 2 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext lm 3dnowext 3dnow pni cx16 bogomips : 3603.04 TLB size : 1088 4K pages clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: ts fid vid ttp [4] [5] $ cat /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 1928300 kB MemFree: 17292 kB Buffers: 10984 kB Cached: 1561244 kB SwapCached: 0 kB Active: 1254600 kB Inactive: 410104 kB HighTotal: 0 kB HighFree: 0 kB LowTotal: 1928300 kB LowFree: 17292 kB SwapTotal: 2031608 kB SwapFree: 2031384 kB Dirty: 96 kB Writeback: 0 kB Mapped: 1222324 kB Slab: 151796 kB CommitLimit: 2995756 kB Committed_AS: 568768 kB PageTables: 7200 kB VmallocTotal: 536870911 kB VmallocUsed: 264072 kB VmallocChunk: 536606367 kB HugePages_Total: 0 HugePages_Free: 0 Hugepagesize: 2048 kB -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - - - Jason Pyeron PD Inc. http://www.pdinc.us - - Principal Consultant 10 West 24th Street #100 - - +1 (443) 269-1555 x333 Baltimore, Maryland 21218 - - - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- This message is copyright PD Inc, subject to license 20080407P00.