Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 15 Dec 2002 13:25:54 +0100 | From | Rogier Wolff <> | Subject | Re: 2.5.51 load avg += 1 |
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On Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 12:02:09PM +0100, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: > On Saturday 14 December 2002 19:58, Mark Hahn wrote: > > > running 2.5.51, when I run 'uptime', it shows my uptime+1. that means if > > > my > > > > might you have a process/thread stuck in a short wait? > > how can this be? the load average was at the given point excactly 1.0, but the > number of running processes (ps ax|grep -v grep | grep -w R) was 0.
Processes in "D" state also count towards the load average. Because usually that means a "disk wait" which usually impacts subjective-performance of the system just as much as the "running" processes do.
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