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Re: Normal CPU load during backup?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc SCHAEFER)
Mon Jun 29 04:19:50 1998
From: Marc SCHAEFER <schaefer@alphanet.ch>
Date: 29 Jun 1998 09:16:12 +0200
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Clint Bauer <bauer@nationwide.net> wrote:
> While doing some test backups with my new scsi tape drive, I noticed
> that the load seemed to stay about 0.8 - 0.95 during the backup. Since
Yes, the load is high. But run ``top'' and you will see the
CPU is mostly idle.
I think this is due to the way that Linux handles load average:
it *looks* like RUNNING *and* KERNEL-SLEEPING(D) processes
are counted in the loadav.
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