Re:Linux Load Averages: Solving the Mystery
by rkeene2 on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @04:58PM
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I have the same problem on my laptop after loading the nvidia kernel module -- so something in the kernel is always uninterruptible, but it's not a process that I can see in userspace.
$ uptime; ps -L aux | awk '{ print $10 }' | sort -u
15:57:37 up 21 days, 22:49, 16 users, load average: 2.23, 1.61, 1.61
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$ ps -L aux|awk '($10 ~ /^R/){ print }'
rkeene 1025 1025 0.0 1 0.0 17980 2344 pts/10 R+ 15:57 0:00 ps -L aux
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$ uptime; ps -L aux | awk '{ print $10 }' | sort -u 15:57:37 up 21 days, 22:49, 16 users, load average: 2.23, 1.61, 1.61 R+ Rl S S+ S< SLs SN STAT Sl Ss Ss+ Ssl T $ ps -L aux|awk '($10 ~ /^R/){ print }' rkeene 1025 1025 0.0 1 0.0 17980 2344 pts/10 R+ 15:57 0:00 ps -L aux $