Strange load averages on 5.3-STABLE

[Michael Ross]

On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 08:13:53 -0300
"Giovanni P. Tirloni" <gpt at tirloni.org> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
>   This is the output of top:
> 
> last pid: 771; load averages: 176.65, 770.13, 926.55 up 0+00:03:13  08:11:07
> 48 processes:  1 running, 47 sleeping
> CPU states: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.0% system, 0.0% interrupt, 100% idle
> Mem: 40M Active, 63M Inact, 45M Wired, 16K Cache, 35M Buf, 99M Free
> Swap: 487M Total, 487M Free
> 
>    PID USERNAME PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE    TIME   WCPU    CPU COMMAND
>    622 mysql     20    0 58104K 28040K kserel   0:01  0.64%  0.63% mysqld
>    587 root      96    0 16888K 10592K select   0:00  0.00%  0.00% httpd
>    652 root      96    0  6252K  4536K select   0:00  0.00%  0.00% snmpd
> [...]
> 

Your may have compiled kernel and userland from different sources.
" and programs like ps(1) and top(1) will fail to work until the kernel and source code versions are the same." from the handbook is what comes to my mind.

Michael