On 07/27/2009 12:04 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Kevin J. Cummings wrote: >> Could it be my ivtv0 (PVR-350) board? Its not supposed to be doing >> anything at the moment! There's nothing plugged into it, and its not >> configured under MythTV right now (cable went all digital).... >> >> I'll try removing the driver module and see if that helps. At worst, >> I'll remove the board entirely. I ended up rmmod ivtvt and ivtvfb, and it didn't help. Yes, the number of ints propped noticeably, but the load average remains 10+.... > Looking at the original 'top' output, all the CPU was going to nice > processing, presumable SETI. When you kill that you note the load > average is still high, could we see the top few lines again to see the > distribution? I note that hi/si are low, and load average indicates > runable process (my first guess was the seti went threaded). So 'top' > with the 'i' visual option (only show runnable tasks) should show what's > running. (I learn something new everyday!) Sure, here it is for "top -i": > top - 12:58:12 up 6 days, 9:02, 4 users, load average: 11.30, 11.15, 11.10 > Cpu(s): 0.7%us, 0.7%sy, 0.0%ni, 98.7%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st > Mem: 2074172k total, 1961024k used, 113148k free, 199680k buffers > Swap: 3911816k total, 412k used, 3911404k free, 935716k cached > > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND > 14743 root 20 0 2560 1152 836 R 0.7 0.1 0:00.08 top > 2506 root 20 0 15068 860 592 R 0.0 0.0 0:32.72 apcupsd > 2547 root 15 -5 0 0 0 D 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 nfsd > 2548 root 15 -5 0 0 0 D 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 nfsd > 2549 root 15 -5 0 0 0 D 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 nfsd > 2550 root 15 -5 0 0 0 D 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 nfsd > 2551 root 15 -5 0 0 0 D 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 nfsd > 2552 root 15 -5 0 0 0 D 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 nfsd > 2553 root 15 -5 0 0 0 D 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 nfsd > 2554 root 15 -5 0 0 0 D 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 nfsd > 17427 root 20 0 77040 72m 752 D 0.0 3.6 0:02.07 clamscan > 24904 root 20 0 2492 964 704 D 0.0 0.0 0:01.87 find > 28703 root 39 19 1900 652 540 D 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 updatedb That's the entire top output.... -- Kevin J. Cummings kjchome@xxxxxxx cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Registered Linux User #1232 (http://counter.li.org) -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines