On 17/01/18 16:31, Anton Aylward wrote:
The load average is "over time" and a logarithmic scale of the last few minutes and further back. It is not about a single process, it is not just CPU, it is not just memory demand, it is not just IO demands; it takes into account all of them. Hence a intensely swappy/thrashing system where there is no work being done by the processes since the kernel/virtualmemory system is taking up everything and blocking every process will have a high load factor. The figures in those columns -- if you can get 'top' to run and update at all in this circumstance - are going to be meaningless.
Well, xosview tells me the load average, and the system is horribly slow, and this is boot, so I'm swearing at it ... Bear in mind I'm running 64-bit SUSE in 3gig of RAM, could that be some of it? Unfortunately, it's a tosh, so when I tried to upgrade it with a 4gig stick (making it 4+2) the new ram promptly caused it to refuse to boot - well, it booted to console in gentoo, but both SUSE and Windows bombed :-( And seeing as I'd already returned the ram twice, I didn't feel like returning it a 3rd time - so I've got a 4GB DDR3L SODIMM that's probably perfectly okay, just that my tosh doesn't like it (toshes apparently are *extremely* sensitive to what ram they do or don't like). Cheers, Wol -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org