It's top shows wrong load percent?

[Nguyen Tam Chinh]

On 8/23/07, Chuck Swiger <cswiger at mac.com> wrote:
> On Aug 22, 2007, at 2:34 AM, Nguyen Tam Chinh wrote:
> > Please advice how to debug this overload problem.
> > Thank you very much!
> >
> > --------------------------
> > %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....

Thank you for your reply, we actually initialized over 1200 python
threads on each server. I'll try to low down the thread number for
tracking the problem.

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