https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1175893 Bug ID: 1175893 Summary: question: load insanely high Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE Tumbleweed Version: Current Hardware: aarch64 OS: Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Kernel Assignee: kernel-bugs@opensuse.org Reporter: ro@suse.com QA Contact: qa-bugs@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- obs-arm-1:~ # uname -a Linux obs-arm-1 5.8.2-1-default #1 SMP Wed Aug 19 09:43:15 UTC 2020 (71b519a) aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux obs-arm-1:~ # cat /proc/loadavg 848.03 848.11 847.01 8/660 35750 obs-arm-1:~ # ps awux | wc -l 526 obs-arm-1:~ # pstree -apl | wc -l 252 so I have 526 processes and a load of about 850 ... what am I missing here ? top - 13:00:18 up 1 day, 17:02, 1 user, load average: 845.34, 847.11, 846.76 Tasks: 524 total, 1 running, 523 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie %Cpu(s): 12.8 us, 0.3 sy, 0.0 ni, 86.9 id, 0.0 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.0 si, 0.0 st MiB Mem : 257195.5+total, 13658.55+free, 30579.12+used, 212957.8+buff/cache MiB Swap: 1000.066 total, 956.066 free, 44.000 used. 223341.5+avail Mem PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 18257 qemu 20 0 9553800 4.102g 22944 S 113.2 1.633 1317:44 qemu-system-aar 21778 qemu 20 0 9689056 4.106g 22956 S 107.2 1.635 1328:27 qemu-system-aar 9249 qemu 20 0 9566116 4.106g 23208 S 102.0 1.635 1318:27 qemu-system-aar 23827 qemu 20 0 9424236 4.059g 23048 S 102.0 1.616 23:30.35 qemu-system-aar 18143 qemu 20 0 9560948 4.104g 22880 S 100.7 1.634 1316:43 qemu-system-aar 22072 qemu 20 0 9465680 4.098g 23052 S 100.7 1.631 1329:10 qemu-system-aar 36915 root 20 0 9428 3852 2900 R 1.316 0.001 0:00.16 top 41766 qemu 20 0 9475952 4.099g 22728 S 0.658 1.632 41:10.28 qemu-system-aar 6601 root 20 0 31536 23576 7452 S 0.329 0.009 0:20.33 bs_worker 1 root 20 0 172424 13108 9568 S 0.000 0.005 3:31.34 systemd 2 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.000 0.000 0:00.99 kthreadd 3 root 0 -20 0 0 0 I 0.000 0.000 0:00.00 rcu_gp 4 root 0 -20 0 0 0 I 0.000 0.000 0:00.00 rcu_par_gp [... skipping the rest of zeroes ...] 8 VMs with about 24 qemu threads each, so I would not be surprised about a load of ~200 but why are we seeing > 800 now ? -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.