Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 03 Sep 2000 18:24:59 +0200 | From | Jorge Nerin <> | Subject | Re: Long uptime (~1 yr) => broken load averages (2.2.12) |
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Neal H Walfield wrote: > > Hello, > > I am running Linux 2.2.12: > > neal@colo:~$ cat /proc/version > Linux version 2.2.12 (root@gondor) (gcc version 2.95.1 19990816 (release)) > #1 Sun Sep 12 00:22:57 EST 1999 > > Starting twelve days ago the load average has increased by one every > twenty-four hours. Normally, it remains close to 0. At the moment, they > are at twelve; I imagine that tomorrow, they will be at thirteen: > > neal@colo:~$ w > 11:08am up 330 days, 17:36, 1 user, load average: 12.08, 12.05, 12.01 > USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT > neal ttyp0 qui182p.star.net 10:02am 0.00s 0.33s 0.12s w > > Other than this, the system appears to be functioning normally. I do not > know where to start looking for the bug, however, I will be happy to > provide any additional details that could be of help. > > Regards, > -Neal >
You may have stuck processes wich doesn't run but count as active for the load avg count. Almost all processes that get stuck in D state and can't be killed increases the load avg by one per process stuck.
So look for processes in zombie state or D state. If you can't kill them perhaps you will need to reboot.
If it increases slowly it could be another thing, but if it increases suddenly at a fixed time it could be a cron job.
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