Messages in this thread |  | | From | Tristan.Greaves@icl ... | | Subject | The mysterious ever-increasing load averages | | Date | Wed, 26 May 1999 15:36:38 +0100 |
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Hi all,
We experienced a very strange issue on a Redhat 5.2 Intel Linux box, which we have manually upgraded to run the 2.2.x kernel series.
tmg@discord ~ >uname -a Linux discord.bra01.icl.co.uk 2.2.6 #3 SMP Tue Apr 27 17:31:05 BST 1999 i686 unknown
After about six days uptime, the load averages started steadily increasing. Yet for no apparant reason! "top" and "ps" didn't show any processes doing anything out of the ordinary. However, the numbers kept going up.
Eventually, the load average was a solid 10.00, but the machine's performance was fine! It seemed as if the load average was lying.
Any ideas? We're not sure why this happened, and have not been able to reproduce it.
If anyone requires any further information, I will post it.
Tris.
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