[Solved] Excessive high load average

sollidsnake · 2012-02-17 01:24:29

My laptop seems to have an very excessive high load average. My system gets very slow even when I'm running openbox with a browser, terminal and music player. That is enough to make applications freeze for a few seconds. I've seen the load average goes higher 5.00. Right now I just logged in openbox using lxdm, open a browser and a terminal and my load average is 23:11:21 up 12 min, 2 users, load average: 1.15, 0.92, 0.58.

$ top

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND            
 1367 root      20   0 48140 2392 1832 R  100  0.1   7:39.51 lxdm-binary        
 1411 jesse     20   0  402m 9800 7176 S    1  0.2   0:03.10 indicator-multi    
 1370 root      20   0  110m  14m 6388 S    0  0.4   0:03.50 X                  
 1479 jesse     20   0  263m  13m  10m S    0  0.3   0:00.99 terminal           
    1 root      20   0  4180  692  592 S    0  0.0   0:00.61 init               
    2 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 kthreadd           
    3 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0        
    6 root      RT   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 migration/0        
    7 root      RT   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 watchdog/0         
    8 root      RT   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 migration/1        
    9 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 kworker/1:0

As yon can see the process 1367 is using 100% of the cpu. I have no idea why this is happening. Also my laptop isn't old. It has intel i5 processor with 4gm ram.
Anybody has an idea of what is happening?

EDIT: I just checked my load average again

[jesse@myarch ~]$ uptime
 23:23:46 up 24 min,  3 users,  load average: 4.42, 2.19, 1.25

That is an absurd value, isn't is? Ah, and my system is up to date, if anyone asks.

Last edited by sollidsnake (2012-02-17 12:35:34)

allen875 · 2012-02-17 02:27:44

well it looks like back in december there were some bugs reported with libglib2.0-0 2.31.2 that where causing this issue you can try updating to make sure you have the most current version.

 pacman -S glib2

sollidsnake · 2012-02-17 02:58:13

Yeah there was a new versioni of glib available. I installed and everything seems to be all right now.
Thank you so much, I was having hard times with this issue.

litemotiv · 2012-02-17 08:30:23

Please mark your thread [Solved] by edting your first post and prepending it to the title sollidsnake.

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#1 2012-02-17 01:24:29

[Solved] Excessive high load average

#2 2012-02-17 02:27:44

Re: [Solved] Excessive high load average

#3 2012-02-17 02:58:13

Re: [Solved] Excessive high load average

#4 2012-02-17 08:30:23

Re: [Solved] Excessive high load average

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