Reid Priedhorsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Thu, 05 Aug 2004 20:13:42 -0500: > Hmm. So, the general consensus is that it's not a problem; and it > certainly doesn't seem to affect interactivity or performance at all. It's > my home box, not a server or anything, and it normally has very low loads, > 10-15% maybe when I'm using it and essentially zero when I'm not. There > shouldn't be lots of processes doing I/O. > > The high load dropped back to normal shortly after I posted. > > I'm still interested in tools that would tell me what processes are doing > I/O, or whatever. It's unnerving for things to being going on with my box > that I don't understand.
`ps axf` lists in the 3rd column the state a process is in. If you have a process in 'D' state, it will contribute a value of 1 to the load (as will 'R' - but then it is taking CPU and will appear in top's output). If it stays in D for long continuously (as opposed to intermitently and for a few seconds - eg. while accessing the disk), then there is probably a kernel bug involved somewhere. If however, the load goes away after some time, maybe it is not something to worry about. Were you waiting for slow IO from a disk or floopy, or maybe listening to music on a bad CD? Any oopsen in your syslog? -- TimC -- http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/staff/tconnors/ If I sit here and stare at nothing long enough, people might think I'm an engineer working on something. -- S.R. McElroy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
