On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 21:43 -0500, B Wooster wrote: > 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 ! > When you remove the card reader, do you unmount it first? If not that can easily leave active processes dead/zombied.
