> >On Feb 15, 16:46, Michael Blandford wrote:
> > Subject: Wrong idle output from top
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have a machine that has output from top that looks like:
> >
> > 119 processes: 87 sleeping, 16 running, 6 zombie, 10 stopped
> > CPU states: 123.9% user, 73.4% system,  0.0% nice, 425146.8% idle
> > Mem:  516928K av, 512692K used,   4236K free, 161708K shrd,  10564K
> buff
> > Swap: 2096440K av, 166200K used, 1930240K free                158388K
> > cached
>
> Load average of 15 - 20?!?!  ==========8^(_______________________)

Yes,  the machine is running a postgres database.

> How the heck do you get the load that high??  I've never seen a load
> average

It is like this all the time.  The customer keeps it very busy.

> If you can easily reproduce the case, I'd suggest entering it as a bug
> in
> Bugzilla.

I will look into doing that.

The idle amount is always wrong as soon as the database is started.
Even after a reboot, this condition remains.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Michael

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