On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 13:31:20 -0700, Robin Laing <Robin.Laing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > B Wooster wrote: > > Using uptime, w, and top - I noticed that the current load average is > > listed as 1.0 - never falls below 1.0 - even though there is nothing > > going on on the machine, and top reports 99.8%+ idle time.. > How much memory? > You have 228 tasks listed? 104 of those processes had "hotplug" in their name. I think there is some USB strangeness going on, every time I plugin and remove my SD Card Reader, I think 5-10 processes are created, most of which end up as zombies (I posted a message about this last week, but no reply on that yet). Anyway, I rebooted my box, and now I see uptime is back close to 0.01 when it reports 99% idle. I guess I'll just have reboot the machine every week or so !
