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SubjectRe: Why so must idle time ?
Today, Giuliano Pochini gleaned this insight:

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>
> 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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