On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 07:24 -0700, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> > It's pretty harmless though. The "load average" thing just means that the
> > extra pdflush threads are twiddling thumbs waiting on some disk I/O -
> > they'll later exit and clean themselves up. They won't be consuming
> > significant resources.
>
> If they're waiting on disk I/O, they shouldn't be runnable, and thus
> should not be counted as part of the load average, surely?
yes they are, since at least a decade. "load average" != "cpu
utilisation" by any means. It's "tasks waiting for a hardware resource
to become available". CPU is one such resource (runnable) but disk is
another. There are more ...
think of load as "if I bought faster hardware this would improve"
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