[KLUG Members] What is wrong....

[Adam Williams]

> ...with this picture?

Backgrounded pending I/O.  This workstation using NFS?  If yes check you
block size, try using NFSv2, or up the biod count.  Usually I see this
most notable on boxes making "heavy" use of NFS or performing async I/O
operations (sleepycat database, etc...)

Load average is a count of processes *waiting* for CPU time;  if they
want to get scheduled but are waiting for some pending action they can
drive up the load average.

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> 15:03:23  up 78 days,  2:08, 10 users,  load average: 6.11, 6.05, 6.01
> 98 processes: 97 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
> CPU0 states:   0.3% user   0.1% system    0.0% nice   0.0% iowait  99.1% idle
> CPU1 states:   0.0% user   0.1% system    0.0% nice   0.0% iowait  99.4% idle
> Mem:   254684k av,  251300k used,    3384k free,       0k shrd,   32152k buff
>                     180528k actv,       0k in_d,    5016k in_c
> Swap:  522104k av,   29060k used,  493044k free                   94396k cached
>   PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME CPU COMMAND
> 26510 root      15   0  1212 1212   864 R     0.7  0.4   0:00   0 top
> ...
> The tasks are sorted in descending order by CPU use.
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