[Users] Re: wierd case of high load averages

[Aleksandar Ivanisevic]

Matt Ayres <matta at tektonic.net> writes:

> On 3/15/2010 11:22 AM, Aleksandar Ivanisevic wrote:
>> I really have no idea what to make of this. Although HN's load average
>> is almost zero, most of the containers have LA in high 3 digits range.
>>
>> To make it even more interesting, LA fluctuates from sngle to triple
>> digits within a minute, below are three samples taken every 30
>> seconds. Note i.e. container 1078 that has a load of 0.06 and 30
>> seconds later 857.53.
>>
>> Everything else is normal, containers are responsive, vmstat is all
>> zeros with 100% idle.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>>    
>
> What does your uname -a say?

# uname -a
Linux ovz1.2e-systems.com 2.6.18-164.11.1.el5.028stab068.3xen #1 SMP Thu Feb 18 07:12:07 MSK 2010 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
# cat /etc/redhat-release
CentOS release 5.4 (Final)