Andre Costa wrote:
Hi, I've been seeing unusually high load averages on my system lately (numbers sometimes range between 3.0-5.0, and stay there). I'm not talking abut CPU load (CPU usage is fine), I guess the problem is I/O related.
ps axf | awk '{if($3 !~ /S/) {print}}'You'll see all of the processes which aren't sleeping. Load average is a count of those processes, over time.