I have a machine showing a high load with no cpu usage. The basic set up is this. NFS server machine is dual 1Ghz pentium III with 2 Gig RAM. OS is RedHat 7.2 with updates and locally compiled kernel 2.4.19-pre7 (same behavior seen with 2.4.18) with Linux Virtual Server patch. NFS client is the same set up. On the server a directory is exported with the options (rw,no_root_squash). Our web application is in this directory along with apache. After mounting the directory on the client all is well. But after starting up the web server that resides on the nfs mounted directory the load (as reported by top) on client will quickly jump up to 4 with 0 cpu usage. The web log files also reside on the nfs mounted directory. I do not see this on machines running older versions of the OS (RH 7.0). I do not use the kernel supplied by RedHat because there is a bug that will freeze up the client and eventually the server. Upgrading the kernel fixed that. Everything else seems fine, the machines are responsive, the application works, etc... There is just a high load reported. I know that load is more than cpu load, but it still seems high when the only thing I can think of that is going on is some files are open for write (but are not currently being written to). Can anyone explain the high load?
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