On Mon, 09 Oct 2006 12:15:34 -0700 Gordon Messmer <yinyang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. Cool, that's something indeed. I'll try it out. Anyway, I disabled beagle for the time being, and overall I think load stabilized on a low level. I guess I will have to wait for FC6 to use a newer beagle and see if it improved... Thks for the tip, Andre -- Andre Oliveira da Costa