[mythtv-users] High Load, Low CPU -- what could cause this...

[Reza Naima]

Actually, you misread -- the iowait is 0.0%, the idle is 84.1%  :)

-r

On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 12:06:50AM -0400, Mike Neir sent me this...
> I'm pretty sure you're seeing a lot of load because of the large amount of
> I/O when reading data from the video source and then writing it somewhere,
> either to disk or network. If you look at what you posted, you'll see
> "iowait  84.1%". I/O intensive tasks always seem to crank up the load
> averages on the servers at work, so I'm guessing that's what's going on in
> your case. Same stuff happens on my myth box too.
> 
> Mike
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org]On Behalf Of Reza Naima
> Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 9:05 PM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: [mythtv-users] High Load, Low CPU -- what could cause this...
> 
> 
> 
> I'm constantly getting high CPU Loads, although I've got pleanty of free
> processor capacity....  Any ideas on what is causing the high load?
> 
> 
>  17:58:07  up 17:45,  6 users,  load average: 3.97, 2.83, 1.63
> 66 processes: 65 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
> CPU states:  14.3% user   1.0% system   0.4% nice   0.0% iowait  84.1%
> idle
> Mem:   222492k av,  219276k used,    3216k free,       0k shrd,   15664k
> buff
>                     132004k actv,     944k in_d,    3792k in_c
> Swap:  257032k av,   24680k used,  232352k free                  113204k
> cached
> 
> 

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