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17:53:47 up 1:25, 7 users, load average: 1.31, 1.16, 1.22
USER TTY LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT
richard :0 16:38 ?xdm? 12:07 0.03s -:0
What can this process be?
Why the ?xdm? for idle value?
Also since installing my new USB 2.0 controller I find that I'm having a bit higher load average. At least I think it has to do with that installation. If my mind doesnät play tricks with me I used to have well below 1.0
Is there a good way to pinpoint what is causing the high load?
I know there is more to it than the cpu load (I/O etc)
It's your login from X. You can check with "echo $DISPLAY"
That's quite a load average, are you running some programs?
Code:
markus@mrk-fujibox:~$ w
19:44:24 up 1:22, 1 user, load average: 0.09, 0.15, 0.11
USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT
markus :0 - 18:24 ?xdm? 5:05 0.01s -:0
Nothin unusual shown in top, as far as I see.
The CPU isn't working on a high load, seems to me that it lies elsewhere, like in the I/O system or with kernel modules.
I know that I'm a bit low on memory (256MD DDR) for my AMD Athlon 1400 running Suse 9.0 with KDE (4 desktops).
Code:
top - 19:16:29 up 2:48, 7 users, load average: 1.18, 1.13, 1.09
Tasks: 129 total, 3 running, 125 sleeping, 0 stopped, 1 zombie
Cpu(s): 5.9% user, 1.8% system, 0.0% nice, 92.3% idle
Mem: 255652k total, 251320k used, 4332k free, 21652k buffers
Swap: 795176k total, 127160k used, 668016k free, 89480k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
3479 richard 16 0 60836 59m 18m R 2.4 23.8 5:41.81 mozilla-bin
3248 richard -51 0 3188 2504 1672 S 1.2 1.0 1:40.36 artsd
4326 richard 15 0 15268 9196 5180 S 1.2 3.6 0:01.31 xmms
3053 root 15 0 293m 29m 4508 R 0.8 12.0 8:14.24 X
3292 richard 16 0 10964 5456 4164 S 0.8 2.1 0:07.47 kdeinit
4325 richard 16 0 992 992 760 R 0.8 0.4 0:00.66 top
3280 richard 16 0 9424 3060 2128 S 0.3 1.2 0:24.26 suseplugger
4327 richard 15 0 15268 9196 5180 S 0.3 3.6 0:00.50 xmms
3255 richard 15 0 15268 9196 5180 S 0.2 3.6 1:11.01 xmms
1 root 15 0 84 72 52 S 0.0 0.0 0:05.30 init
2 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.08 keventd
3 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.06 ksoftirqd_CPU0
4 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:01.07 kswapd
5 root 25 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 bdflush
6 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.59 kupdated
7 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.06 kinoded
No disk swapping activity, other than when starting new programs.
Is there any way to see how much the individual open files/sockets etc use in terms of CPU power, I/O time, idle time?
Could this info be monitored using lsof?
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