[Users] Re: wierd case of high load averages

[Aleksandar Ivanisevic]

On 3/15/10 5:50 , BRUNO CESAR RIBAS wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 05:41:00PM +0100, Aleksandar Ivanisevic wrote:
>> 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?
>
> Is there any process in D state?

nope

(on HN): # ps ax -o stat= | sort | uniq -c
       1 R+
     129 S
     103 S<
       3 S+
      11 Sl
       1 SLs
       4 SN
     174 Ss
       1 S<s
       9 Ss+
       5 Ssl

i ran this a couple of times and the output was basically the same