Re: f9: question on load average

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Il giorno lun, 15/09/2008 alle 10.04 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan ha
scritto:

> "Load average" is a running average of the number of ready processes,
> i.e. those that could do something if they had the cpu. Processes that
> are waiting for something to happen, e.g. I/O to complete, can't use the
> cpu even if it's idle. Thus it's perfectly possible to have the cpu
> doing nothing while the load average is high. It often means you have
> some long I/O operation on a slow disk system e.g. copying a DVD to an
> external USB device, or multiple downloads waiting for data to arrive
> from the net.

Thanks Patrick!

There is a command for see, in this case, what's the process that is
causing the hight Load Average?

In my case I discovered that the problem was caused by a remote NFS
mounted with the remote NFS server out of office (my notebook).

Thanks 

> poc
> 
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