Unreliable load averages

From: Paul.Casteels <casteels_at_uia.ua.ac.be>
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 14:16:31 +0200 (MET DST)

We have an Alphaserver 1000 with V4.0B. When the system runs for some
time, the load averages are allways above 2 although, according to top,
there seems to be little cpu activity going on.


last pid: 1879928; load averages 2.36, 2.45, 2.4039
14:08:19
236 processes: 1 running, 1 waiting, 68 sleeping, 158 idle
Cpu states: 3.1% user, 0.0% nice, 8.2% system, 89.3% idle
Memory: Real: 57M/123M act/tot Virtual: 140M/766M use/tot Free: 2744K

  PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME CPU COMMAND
25593 casteels 45 0 3056K 385K run 0:00 1.20% top
28474 deco 42 0 9336K 1220K sleep 0:16 0.80% sas
  287 root 44 0 1776K 155K sleep 149:14 0.70% ypserv
13580 casteels 45 0 2184K 376K sleep 0:00 0.60% tcsh
25315 root 44 0 1600K 188K sleep 0:00 0.30% login
...

Paul Casteels casteels_at_uia.ua.ac.be Tel: +32.3.8202455
                                                Fax: +32.3.8202245
University of Antwerp Dpt.Physics
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Belgium
Received on Fri Sep 12 1997 - 14:31:55 NZST

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