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 > -- Dario Lesca <d.lesca@xxxxxxxxxx> -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines