[CentOS] Deciphering top's data

Fri Feb 6 14:24:32 UTC 2009
Paul Bijnens <Paul.Bijnens at xplanation.com>

On 2009-02-06 10:11, Paul Bijnens wrote:
> On 2009-02-06 07:24, Jason Pyeron wrote:
>> 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
> 
> Do you have any Java process running?

And following up to myself...
I see this phenonomon on most hosts that run a java process but
I'm still lacking some decent explanation why java would exhibit such
behaviour.  Any experts?


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