[olug] NEED to kill a process....

[Christopher Cashell]

On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Noel Leistad <noel at metc.net> wrote:
> Oddly, it's clustered w/ another box that accesses SAN, LOAD on both
> nearing 100 98 94, although, performance hasn't "pooped the boat" yet....

The load value on the box with the hung process can be a little
misleading, too.  Processes that are in uninterruptable IO state like
this one get counted along with runnable processes when factoring the
load value.  This can result in some misleading information, as you
could have 50 hung processes in an IO WAIT state that are utilizing
negligible (CPU) resources, and a CPU average of 0.1%, but because of
those hung processes, you'll end up with a load average of 50.

If there's just a single hung process, that may not skew the load
average quite as much, though.

> Noel

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Christopher