top - 02:53:43 up 27 days, 12:08, 1 user, load average: 60.40, 26.47, 11.08 Tasks: 5 total, 0 running, 5 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie %Cpu(s): 0.8 us, 92.5 sy, 0.0 ni, 0.0 id, 0.4 wa, 0.0 hi, 3.9 si, 2.4 st MiB Mem : 3915.3 total, 86.0 free, 3915.2 used, 74.8 buff/cache
MiB Swap: 2048.0 total, 0.2 free, 2047.8 used. 0.1 avail Mem
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 2380194 bbs 20 0 4914476 2.5g 6784 S 124.4 66.6
17,07 /sbbs/exec/sbbs w! d
2380192 bbs 20 0 2603052 458636 6656 S 70.7 11.4 10,11 /sbbs/exec/sbbs s! d
2380185 bbs 20 0 2398016 215688 6272 S 8.8 5.4 66:23.37 /sbbs/exec/sbbs t! d
2380183 bbs 20 0 1075500 15920 6272 S 1.7 0.4 1:48.39 /sbbs/exec/sbbs m! d
2380184 bbs 20 0 534820 11744 6144 S 1.1 0.3 0:43.03 /sbbs/exec/sbbs f! d
124% cpu is nothing unusual. I have 4 cpus. There's no real reason for the system to behitting a 60 load average.
top - 02:53:43 up 27 days, 12:08, 1 user, load average: 60.40, 26.47, 11.0 Tasks: 5 total, 0 running, 5 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie %Cpu(s): 0.8 us, 92.5 sy, 0.0 ni, 0.0 id, 0.4 wa, 0.0 hi, 3.9 si, 2.4 MiB Mem : 3915.3 total, 86.0 free, 3915.2 used, 74.8 buff/cache MiB Swap: 2048.0 total, 0.2 free, 2047.8 used. 0.1 avail Mem
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMA 2380194 bbs 20 0 4914476 2.5g 6784 S 124.4 66.6 17,07 /sbbs/exec/sbbs w! d
2380192 bbs 20 0 2603052 458636 6656 S 70.7 11.4 10,11 /sbbs/exec/sbbs s! d
2380185 bbs 20 0 2398016 215688 6272 S 8.8 5.4 66:23.37 /sbbs/exec/sbbs t! d
2380183 bbs 20 0 1075500 15920 6272 S 1.7 0.4 1:48.39 /sbbs/exec/sbbs m! d
2380184 bbs 20 0 534820 11744 6144 S 1.1 0.3 0:43.03 /sbbs/exec/sbbs f! d
124% cpu is nothing unusual. I have 4 cpus. There's no real reason for the system to behitting a 60 load average.
With 4 CPUs, a load average of 4.0 indicates that all 4 CPUs are at 100% capacity. The 60 indicates that there are a *LOT* of process waiting for their turn in the queue for CPU attention. It's almost not possible to be that overloaded. Better check the cooling system on those CPUs...
Mine does that off and on during the day when HTML traffic picks up. I have a variable speed cooling fan and I can tell when traffic picks up because it runs faster. LOL Especially when people are reading message boards like fidonet on my BBS. WOW it tops out at 80% sometimes. I am running my BBS on a 15 year old laptop though.
top - 02:53:43 up 27 days, 12:08, 1 user, load average: 60.40, 26.47,
124% cpu is nothing unusual. I have 4 cpus. There's no real reason for the system to behitting a 60 load average.
With 4 CPUs, a load average of 4.0 indicates that all 4 CPUs are at 100% capacity. The 60 indicates that there are a *LOT* of process waiting for their turn in the queue for CPU attention. It's almost not possible to be that overloaded. Better check the cooling system on those CPUs...
Re: I don't get it
By: Rixter to nelgin on Mon Jun 23 2025 07:51:01
Mine does that off and on during the day when HTML traffic picks up. I ha a variable speed cooling fan and I can tell when traffic picks up because runs faster. LOL Especially when people are reading message boards like fidonet on my BBS. WOW it tops out at 80% sometimes. I am running my BBS a 15 year old laptop though.
I have restrictions on the amount of traffic via iptables so it shouldn't be problem. I guess I'll have to double check to make sure they're actually effective.
I have guests log in via nntp and download messages from all the message bases once a week and that can be hours of traffic just doing that. I guess some people love messages. They cannot reply to them but they download all of them twice a week. My Computer will just ramp up like that out of the blue several times a day likes it is real busy even when no one is signed in. Ghost users! LOL
| Sysop: | Tetrazocine |
|---|---|
| Location: | Melbourne, VIC, Australia |
| Users: | 8 |
| Nodes: | 8 (0 / 8) |
| Uptime: | 89:03:45 |
| Calls: | 161 |
| Files: | 21,501 |
| Messages: | 78,340 |