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From: Gabriel Paubert <paubert@iram•es>
To: "dibacco@libero•it" <dibacco@libero•it>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists•ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: High load average  but low cpu (xenomai can be the explanation?)
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:42:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090921164207.GA26996@iram.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17851044.2911671253545985517.JavaMail.root@wmail27>

On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 05:13:05PM +0200, dibacco@libero•it wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have an MPC880 @133MHz. If I look into the load (with uptime) I get 
> values around 3.0 but my CPU is always under 5 percent (top). How could I 
> explain this? I'm using linux 2.6.19 with xenomai but no xenomai application is 
> running at all. I have a cramfs on a nor flash. What could be the problem? If I 
> kill the process I developed the average load goes down.

What's the process doing when it's not running?

Under top, what is the percentage of wait (x.x%wa)?

	Gabriel

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-09-21 17:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-21 15:13 High load average but low cpu (xenomai can be the explanation?) dibacco
2009-09-21 15:35 ` R: " Bosi Daniele
2009-09-21 16:42 ` Gabriel Paubert [this message]
2009-09-22  4:10 ` Brad Boyer

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