On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 03:59:17PM -0700, RJ45 wrote:
> 
> on my ultra 10 after some heavy file transfer both via scp and ftp using
> the ex0 NIC the load average stay fixed to 3.
> There is no CPU consuming process:
> 
> ps -auwx | less
> USER PID %CPU %MEM  VSZ   RSS TT STAT STARTED    TIME COMMAND
> root   3  2.1 15.6    0 81592 ?? DK    8:18PM 3:55.14 [pagedaemon]
> root 754  0.0  0.1  960   416 p0 R+   11:52PM 0:00.00 ps -auwx 
> root 212  0.0  0.4 1624  1944 p0 Ds    8:32PM 0:-1.83 -tcsh 
> root 210  0.0  0.4  976  2232 ?? Ss    8:32PM 0:-1.77 sshd: root@ttyp0 
> root 206  0.0  0.0   96   856 ?? SWs+       - 0:00.00 /usr/libexec/getty
> suncons
>  console 
> root 191  0.0  0.2  312   880 ?? Ss    8:18PM 0:00.08 /usr/sbin/cron 
> root 186  0.0  0.2  136   968 ?? Ss    8:18PM 0:00.01 /usr/sbin/inetd -l 
> root 173  0.0  0.0  784  1664 ?? SWs        - 0:00.00 /usr/sbin/sshd 
> root  93  0.0  0.2  248   864 ?? Ss    8:18PM 0:-1.22 /usr/sbin/syslogd -s 
> root   6  0.0 15.6    0 81592 ?? DK    8:18PM 0:31.79 [aiodoned]
> root   5  0.0 15.6    0 81592 ?? DK    8:18PM 0:26.54 [ioflush]
> root   4  0.0 15.6    0 81592 ?? DK    8:18PM 0:00.25 [reaper]
> root   2  0.0 15.6    0 81592 ?? DK    8:18PM 0:00.00 [atapibus0]
> root   1  0.0  0.0  880   136 ?? SWs        - 0:00.00 init 
> root 755  0.0  0.4 1624  1944 p0 RV   11:52PM 0:00.00 -tcsh 
> root   0  0.0 15.6    0 81592 ?? DKs   8:18PM 0:00.50 [swapper]
> 
> but the load average stays always high:
> 
> 11:52PM  up  3:34, 1 user, load averages: 3.20, 3.15, 3.02
> USER TTY FROM              LOGIN@  IDLE WHAT
> root  p0 sword.hidden.org  8:32PM     0 w 
> 

I'd use top or vmstat or systat because ps is a snapshot thing and loadaverage
is historical. Are there any other anomalies or just this?

	Andrey