Strange load averages on 5.3-STABLE

[Giovanni P. Tirloni]

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
[...]


  Strange uh ? The system seems normal besides that. I only saw that 
because sendmail stopped aceppting connections because of the "high load".

  FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE #6: Mon Feb 14 09:32:36 BRST 2005

-- 
Giovanni


PS.: Please CC: me.