[ALUG] How to diagnose heavy system load at power up?

[Chris G]

On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 07:01:19PM +0000, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
> Chris G wrote:
> >
> >>>One noticeable thing
> >>>apart from the load average being so high is that my 8Gb of memory
> >>>gets eaten up too, but there seem to be no particular processes using
> >>>either lots of CPU or lots of memory.
> This may be simply down to the kernel using unallocated memory for
> disk cache etc, cat /proc/meminfo would probably tell you more info
> in this respect and you will most likely see that the vast
> proportion of memory is "cached" which means it is being used as a
> filesystem cache as there is nothing else for it to do.
> 
> top only uses the first two values so from there it looks like you
> are almost out of memory.
> 
Yes,I think that's probably it as it never swaps, just sits with all of
real memory 'used'.

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Chris Green