High system load - can't find anything running

From: Robert Carsey <rcarsey_at_monmouth.edu>
Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 09:10:44 -0400

Hello, this seems really odd on my v5.1 machine. I can't seem to find
anything running that would give me a system load of 14+. The only thing
"interesting" about this machine is that it has 4 filesystems while are
served from NFS and I'm running LSM. Can anyone give me some pointers as to
where I should look for the source of this load?


load averages: 14.75, 14.50, 14.69
21:19:04
144 processes: 4 running, 54 sleeping, 70 idle, 16 zombie
CPU states: 3.9% user, 0.0% nice, 96.0% system, 0.0% idle
Memory: Real: 230M/493M act/tot Virtual: 33M/7825M use/tot Free: 121M

  PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME CPU COMMAND
28328 root 42 0 8352K 1302K sleep 0:00 4.40% smbd
14526 root 49 0 6704K 434K run 0:00 2.80% smbd
26145 root 46 0 8440K 1327K sleep 0:01 2.70% smbd
28517 root 42 0 5448K 712K sleep 0:00 1.20% login
26853 root 42 0 8672K 1531K sleep 0:04 1.00% smbd
27226 root 44 0 8616K 1376K run 0:00 0.90% smbd
27276 root 45 0 8464K 1433K sleep 0:00 0.70% smbd
27325 root 42 0 8520K 1359K sleep 0:00 0.60% smbd
28450 root 46 0 4272K 1777K run 0:01 0.40% top
23382 root 44 0 1944K 327K sleep 0:00 0.40% telnetd
18731 root 44 0 4744K 933K sleep 0:06 0.30% radiusd
22164 root 42 0 8776K 1605K sleep 0:09 0.10% smbd
27335 root 42 0 8528K 1376K sleep 0:01 0.10% smbd
14170 root 54 10 8128K 516K run 0:00 0.00% dtscreen
  803 root 44 0 9760K 3391K sleep 6:17 0.00% Xdec
------------------------------------------------------------------------
# ps -Af -p0 -m
UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD
root 0 0 0.5 Sep 30 ?? 02:00:53 [kernel idle]
                        0.0 0:00.00
                        0.0 13:29.78
                        0.0 0:11.67
                        0.0 0:16.56
                        0.0 0:00.00
                        0.0 0:00.04
                        0.0 0:00.00
                        0.0 0:00.45
                        0.0 0:00.05
                        0.0 0:00.00
                        0.0 0:00.00
                        0.0 0:00.24
                        0.0 0:00.06
                        0.0 0:00.00
                        0.0 0:00.39
                        0.0 0:00.00
                        0.0 0:00.35
                        0.0 0:00.00
                        0.0 0:00.18
                        0.0 0:00.06
                        0.0 0:00.03
                        0.0 0:00.00
                        0.0 0:00.00
                        0.0 0:00.62
                        0.0 0:11.87
                        0.0 8:35.46
                        0.0 0:00.00
                        0.0 4:14.77
                        0.0 0:00.05
                        0.0 0:00.00
                        0.2 27:52.07
                        0.2 27:23.66
                        0.1 27:38.22
                        0.0 0:15.24
                        0.0 0:07.25
                        0.0 0:00.57
                        0.0 0:00.00
                        0.0 0:00.05
                        0.0 0:00.00
                        0.0 0:01.29
                        0.0 0:00.00
                        0.0 0:00.20
                        0.0 0:00.00
                        0.0 0:34.74
                        0.0 0:00.00
                        0.0 0:00.18
                        0.0 0:00.00
                        0.0 0:00.94
                        0.0 0:00.00
                        0.0 0:00.00
                        0.0 0:00.03
                        0.0 3:59.67
                        0.0 0:00.00
                        0.0 0:00.00
                        0.0 0:00.00
                        0.0 0:45.97
                        0.0 0:46.52
                        0.0 0:47.66
                        0.0 0:46.66
                        0.0 0:48.12
                        0.0 0:46.62
                        0.0 0:44.99
                        0.0 0:00.00
                        0.0 0:00.00
                        0.0 0:00.00
                        0.0 0:00.00
                        0.0 0:00.00
                        0.0 0:00.00
                        0.0 0:00.00
                        0.0 0:00.00
                        0.0 0:00.00
                        0.0 0:00.00
                        0.0 0:00.00
                        0.0 0:00.00
                        0.0 0:00.00
                        0.0 0:00.00
                        0.0 0:00.00
                        0.0 0:00.00
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Received on Thu Oct 05 2000 - 13:11:48 NZDT

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