Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 169696
crazy loadavg detected by top and nagios
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:14 EST
Description of problem: I know my FX55 is quite fast, but this is crazy! top - 09:17:38 up 1:00, 5 users, load average: 350152.19, 318442.47, 651266.8Tasks: 114 total, 1 running, 113 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 19.6% us, 17.3% sy, 18.2% ni, 8.0% id, 7.1% wa, 11.9% hi, 17.9% si Mem: 1024592k total, 992044k used, 32548k free, 52792k buffers Swap: 2048236k total, 0k used, 2048236k free, 541640k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 4358 ellson 15 0 167m 19m 10m S 12.6 2.0 0:01.56 gnome-terminal 4143 root 15 0 175m 28m 8284 S 5.0 2.9 0:39.52 X 4344 ellson 15 0 379m 75m 23m S 0.3 7.5 0:43.09 firefox-bin 6134 ellson 16 0 7300 1228 896 R 0.3 0.1 0:00.05 top Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.13-1.1588_FC5 How reproducible: ? Steps to Reproduce: 1.top 2. 3. Actual results: Load avgs bounce around all over the place: -667287.09, 493018.25, ... Expected results: Average in range 0 to +20 or so. No -ve values. Nothing above 100 or so. Additional info:
Seems to be fixed in kernel-2.6.13-1.1589_FC5
Problem is back in kernel-2.6.13-1.1594_FC5 top - 11:01:55 up 8 min, 4 users, load average: -451549.35, -2173.65, -167270.Tasks: 110 total, 2 running, 108 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 0.0% us, 0.0% sy, 0.0% ni, 0.0% id, 0.0% wa, 100.0% hi, 0.0% si Mem: 1024592k total, 525728k used, 498864k free, 49224k buffers Swap: 2048236k total, 0k used, 2048236k free, 245928k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 3192 ellson 15 0 7296 980 720 R 2.0 0.1 0:00.01 top 1 root 15 0 7060 680 556 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.56 init
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 169962 ***