100-200 load average on an idle system: Help!

[Rilindo Foster]

if it is an I/O problem, perhaps can we get some sort of confirmation  
like so:

iostat -c 60

?

On Jan 9, 2007, at 2:16 AM, James Gray wrote:

>
> Snipped :)
>
> All very interesting but not particularly useful :(  You're showing  
> us the top
> output which says there are approx 127 processes in the run queue  
> but only 2
> are currently running.  That leads me to think you have something  
> that is
> waiting for I/O of some sort.
>
> I see these sort of incredible load figures with zero CPU usage  
> when something
> starts spawning threads/children and waiting for network I/O (like DNS
> lookups etc).  While the threads/children are waiting, they aren't  
> chewing
> CPU time, but ARE in the run queue.
>
> You can see the hierarchy of what is spawning what with "ps axjf".   
> You should
> end up seeing pretty clearly if there is a single process spawing  
> like a
> daemon ;) (pun intended!)
>
> Cheers,
>
> James
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