High Load Averages

ohlookaforum · 08-09-2010, 01:48 PM

Load averages go from .03 to 17.5+ for no reason (seen by me ) Could someone possibly help me figure out what is going on? Issue is temporarily solved by restarting Apache.

I'm not very knowledgeable with Linux, so please keep that in mind.

thank you!

Code:

top - 02:49:20 up 58 min, 1 user, load average: 19.10, 5.80, 2.63
Mem: 8168584k total, 4289064k used, 3879520k free, 53996k buffers
Swap: 4192924k total, 0k used, 4192924k free, 2769472k cached
Cumulative time On
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
2978 mysql 21 6 839m 68m 4176 S 0.0 0.9 0:44.18 mysqld
2076 root 10 -5 0 0 0 R 0.0 0.0 0:17.55 kondemand/1
15 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:03.56 events/1
14 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:03.13 events/0
4226 root 18 0 124m 23m 1708 S 0.0 0.3 0:02.14 lfd
1764 root 10 -5 0 0 0 D 0.0 0.0 0:01.98 kjournald
11910 root 21 4 146m 14m 7368 S 0.0 0.2 0:01.91 httpd

Tinkster · 08-09-2010, 03:29 PM

Ummm ... this is NOT how we go about this at LQ.

Please report your original post to be MOVED to Server.

DON'T create a dupe. This one is being reported for closure.

Cheers,
Tink

AlucardZero · 08-09-2010, 03:34 PM

Code:

ps aux | grep " D "

Any processes in state D aka uninterruptible sleep?

Code:

/sbin/mount

list of mounts

Code:

df -k

Does 'df' complete quickly? If not, cancel it. What mount did it hang on (they'll be in the same order as shown by 'mount')? If still here, fix whatever storage problem you're having - reconnect the fibre, or fix the NFS server, or force unmount the drive (umount; umount -f; umount -l).

You also need to mention that distro and version you're running, and exactly what kernel (uname -srvm)

GrapefruiTgirl · 08-09-2010, 04:06 PM

Please post your thread in only one forum. Posting a single thread in the most relevant forum will make it easier for members to help you and will keep the discussion in one place. This thread is being closed because it is a duplicate.
Meanwhile, I'll report your original thread in "Newbie" for a move to "Server".

Sasha