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...
My recollection (and doing some web searches) show that 0.0 was the load average with nothing going on in the system.
From the man pages, I learn that uptime gets its numbers from "w",which has been completely rewritten. It does not mention anything about starting at 1.0 instead of 0.0 - anyone has any info on why idle is now showing up as 1.0 load average? Example top output: top - 15:08:11 up 13 days, 18:06, 7 users, load average: 1.00, 1.01, 1.01 Tasks: 228 total, 1 running, 227 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 0.3% us, 0.3% sy, 0.0% ni, 99.3% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si
uname: 2.6.10-1.741_FC3 #1 Thu Jan 13 16:38:22 EST 2005 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
How much memory?
You have 228 tasks listed? What are they? Are things swapping? What are the top processes listed in top?
From an FC1 machine with Boinc (Seti@home running). Listening to XMMS and many mozilla windows open.
13:23:55 up 34 days, 4:17, 2 users, load average: 1.03, 1.13, 1.16
82 processes: 80 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: cpu user nice system irq softirq iowait idle
total 0.9% 97.6% 1.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%Seti@home is the largest proces. Xmms doesn't even show up. -- Robin Laing
