It's top shows wrong load percent?

[Chuck Swiger]

On Aug 22, 2007, at 2:34 AM, Nguyen Tam Chinh wrote:
> Please advice how to debug this overload problem.
> Thank you very much!
>
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> %top
> last pid: 12901;  load averages:  8.68,  8.65,  8.65    up 1 
> +20:44:06  04:15:12
> 1438 processes:9 running, 1429 sleeping

Look at the number of processes you've got-- most likely you've got  
some scripts leaving zombie processes around, or one of the server  
programs you are running isn't cleaning up after it's children  
properly.  Do a "ps aux" and look for excessive numbers of processes....

-- 
-Chuck