[CentOS] Weird output of system load

m.roth at 5-cent.us

m.roth at 5-cent.us
Thu Sep 11 19:05:55 UTC 2014


Leon Fauster wrote:
> Am 11.09.2014 um 17:05 schrieb Mingfei Hua <mfhua at aerohive.com>:
>> This issue happened again, who can help on this? system load up to 72,
>> but /proc/stat only show that 2 processes were running and no process
>> blocked. could it be a bug?
>
> show us
>
> $ ps r -A
>
The load depends on what the running jobs are *doing*. I *frequently* see
loads of 70 and some over 100, on servers with 48 or 64 cores... but we do
*really* serious number crunching around here.

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