unusually high load averages
Jonathan Fosburgh
syjef at mdanderson.org
Thu Jan 29 13:45:52 PST 2004
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On Thursday 29 January 2004 03:34 pm, Jake Khuon wrote:
> I'm noticing some unusually high load averages even though nothing seems to
> be taking up much CPU. This started happening with a recent cvsup (last
> night). Anyone know what might be causing this?
>
Run `top` and see what your interrupts are doing. I'd guess you're suffering
from the IRQ20 storm. vmstat -i should also tell you that. A patch was
posted to this list in the last couple of weeks that deals with this. It is
working for me (I first ran into this a couple of days ago).
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Jonathan Fosburgh
AIX and Storage Administrator
UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, TX
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