Friday, January 28, 2011

Load average

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  2:05pm  up 79 days  6:40,  5 users,  load average: 2948.98, 2948.04, 2945.49


(Later we found out that the load was actually "fake", the kernel had somehow died and everything accessing /proc/$pid/* was hanging in state D)

2 comments:

  1. Cristian Rodriguez28 January, 2011 19:10

    Have seen this too, no idea where the bug is, had to reboot the system.

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  2. Yeah, we also had to reboot, because even SSH login did not work anymore. Only a still running remote shell did work, until something (e.g. ps) wanted to touch /proc/*/*. Since this is a productive environment, I'll try to reproduce next week.

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