Andrew Perrin wrote: > On a new box I just built, the load average has been 3.00 for a couple of > days now, with really no significant work being done.
You probably have three processes in uninteruptable sleeps ("D" state in
ps output). This could be due from anything to a linux kernel bug to
hardware issues to user error. The processes cannot be killed, probably
will never leave D state unless you reboot, and are probably harmless.
Your cpu is not in fact being used any more than usual; the load average
just happens to include processes in this state by definition.
> 51 root 9 0 0 0 0 DW 0.0 0.0 0:00 khubd
Here's one of them.
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