On Tue, 30 May 2006 20:28:09 -0700, David L wrote: > top - 17:53:52 up 8:32, 9 users, load average: 1.39, 0.53, 0.19 > Tasks: 149 total, 2 running, 144 sleeping, 2 stopped, 1 zombie > Cpu(s): 0.0% us, 0.0% sy, 0.0% ni, 0.0% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% > si, 0.0% st > Mem: 2067636k total, 1185580k used, 882056k free, 47392k buffers > Swap: 6144820k total, 0k used, 6144820k free, 661912k cached > > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND > 1 root 16 0 1992 684 584 S -0.0 0.0 0:00.69 init > 2 root 34 19 0 0 0 S -0.0 0.0 0:00.20 ksoftirqd/0 > 3 root RT 0 0 0 0 S -0.0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/0 > 4 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S -0.0 0.0 0:00.28 events/0 > 5 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S -0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khelper > 6 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S -0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kthread > 8 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S -0.0 0.0 0:00.01 kblockd/0 > 9 root 20 -5 0 0 0 S -0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpid Can you send top output to the list that's sorted by CPU usage (which is usually the default), not PID. Your list is cut off, it doesn't show user processes. Load average says something is running, but the list you posted barely shows half the processes and none of the running or stopped ones. If you are running the latest kernel RPM, you should bugzilla this situation. -Paul