Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 7 Jul 2000 20:28:59 -0400 (EDT) | From | Derek Martin <> | Subject | Re: Why so must idle time ? |
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Today, Giuliano Pochini gleaned this insight:
> > > I have a machine running web server. It has a lot of httpd's loaded and > most of them are sleeping. The load average is always around 7-13, so I > wonder why the CPU usage doesn't reach ~100%. It wastes CPU time or > simply there is something top does not show ?
You probably have a bunch of processes waiting on I/O. Try
ps aux |grep ' D[W]* ' and you'll probabaly see a number of processes vaguely similar to your load average.
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