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#1 2015-03-24 13:44:15

n3m
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(Very) high loadavg - probably bug like in kernel 3.3.5?

Hi,
as mentioned in the title, this is bugging me a bit. I can't find why this, so I'm asking here, maybe someone can reproduce it too. By now, I didn't notice any decrease of battery performance on the notebook besides the usual battery wear.


First of all, my setup:
Desktop:
- Xeon E3 1231 @3.4GHz
- GeForce GTX 970
- 120GB Crucial SSD
- Dualboot Windows 8.1 (gummiboot)
- Gnome 3.14

Notebook:
- Intel i7 2670QM @2.2GHz
- ATI Radeon 7610M
- 240GB Mushkin SSD
- Dualboot Windows 7 (grub)
- i3 + compton



What I noticed:
Right after boot the loadavg is at about 0.20, then slowly raises to 1.10. After some time working the loadavg is at about 1.40 or sometimes even higher.
When watching htop as root I can't find anything that would be at > 100% CPU usage, basically all of it (when using Chromium for example) sums up to about 20% at max.
Even without running xorg the load goes up to 1.10



My actual post/question
Can anybody else reproduce it? I'm experiencing this on both machines, desktop and notebook. My notebook should be quite clean as I did a fresh install about a month ago and I'm only using a very minimal setup (about 450 packages, really nothing special besides Chromium and Eclipse) and this issue still exists. At first I thought this issue might be caused by something like missing trim, but I verified this and the issue still exists. I read this topic and they suggested downgrading to a lower kernel version, but my kernel version is 3.19.2, which is far ahead of 3.3.4.

What might cause this high load?

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#2 2015-04-08 10:57:23

marcus
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Re: (Very) high loadavg - probably bug like in kernel 3.3.5?

Hi n3m,

I have the same issue on my notebook (Intel i5-2557M). Haven't found any solution so far, except downgrading to linux-3.18.6.

pacman -U http://seblu.net/a/arm/2015/03/17/core/os/x86_64/linux-3.18.6-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz

Have you been able to solve it?

Cheers,
Marcus

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#3 2015-04-08 11:57:48

Spider.007
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Re: (Very) high loadavg - probably bug like in kernel 3.3.5?

Same here; I've also downgraded a few machines to 3.18.6; it seems there isn't a real load but the number is still too high. I've seen the same problem with i/o; atop claimed 100% io time while the machine was doing nothing. Haven't found any bugreport so far.. This happens on both virtualised clients and bare-metal machines

Last edited by Spider.007 (2015-04-08 11:59:07)

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#4 2015-04-08 22:08:14

xy
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Re: (Very) high loadavg - probably bug like in kernel 3.3.5?

Here too, I didnt downgrade yet, so I tried out, what happens if I quit X and everything else, just having my shell active - loadavg slowly decreases to a minimum of 1.01 hmm
Even though, if I have X active and using arch as usual, CPU consumption sum is maybe 10-15% (is it really normal, that firefox is so resource hungry...) but loadavg is even higher now, at least 1.21 and above.
Maybe I should downgrade too.

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#5 2015-04-19 16:48:10

n3m
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Re: (Very) high loadavg - probably bug like in kernel 3.3.5?

So, it's been some time now. I've been monitoring it a bit, looking at updates and so on.
I have not been able to sort this issue out, but I did a reinstall on my desktop and now the load is at 0.0 - 0.5 at max, so back to normal. I thought it might be some package that has services running in the background, so I looked into into a diff between desktop and notebook. Here's the result:

adobe-source-code-pro-fonts
alsa-oss
bash-completion
bsd-games
cmatrix
dialog
dmenu-recent-aliases
dosfstools
eclipse-java
gcc-multilib
gdb
grub
haveged
hdparm
highlight
htop
i3lock-background
iotop
jdk8-openjdk
jmtpfs
libsynaptics
libxkbcommon-x11
mpv
myman
numix-icon-theme-git
openssh
os-prober
p7zip
powertop
pv
rfkill
sasm-git
sshfs
tk
ttf-dejavu
ttf-inconsolata
unzip
wpa_supplicant
wpa_supplicant_gui
xclip
xf86-input-synaptics
xf86-video-ati
xf86-video-intel
xorg-server
xorg-xinput
xorg-xkill
xterm
zathura
zathura-pdf-poppler
zip

As I can't see any packages that might be causing the load issue (haveged is turned off, thought of that too), you might want to check out if you have the same packages, to find the source.

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#6 2015-04-19 19:20:25

Spider.007
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Re: (Very) high loadavg - probably bug like in kernel 3.3.5?

I experience it on servers, they have none of those packages (except haveged and openssh)

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#7 2015-04-30 11:56:54

xy
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Re: (Very) high loadavg - probably bug like in kernel 3.3.5?

I still have the problemof high load average after upgrading the kernel to 4.0.1-1...
Have you found any solution yet?
Time for a bug report?

I'm using an Asus K53S with Intel i5-2430M and Nvidia Geforce GT 540M.
I'm using Arch with lxdm and xfce.

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#8 2015-05-03 11:21:06

n3m
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Re: (Very) high loadavg - probably bug like in kernel 3.3.5?

Not yet. I'll go for a reinstall soon as this really bugs me and it actually fixed it on my desktop. I'll report if it fixed it, when I'll find the time to backup and install everything.

My model is an Asus K53SV (specs see first post), maybe this could be part of the issue too?

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#9 2015-05-03 11:41:58

develop
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Re: (Very) high loadavg - probably bug like in kernel 3.3.5?

Me having same issue on Asus laptop..... downgraded to 3.18 series and still no luck..... time for bug report I suppose.....

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#10 2015-05-05 10:14:05

LinuxakSVK
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Re: (Very) high loadavg - probably bug like in kernel 3.3.5?

Asus k53SC CPU i3, nvidia GT520M. Arch with i3wm

same issue, load average is >1.0, on debian/ubuntu or fedora i havent this problem.

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#11 2015-05-05 21:35:30

n3m
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Re: (Very) high loadavg - probably bug like in kernel 3.3.5?

Alright, I linked the bug report to this thread, maybe someone finds an answer.
Fresh install didn't help on my machine either, but as far as I can tell it still doesn't affect battery life. Yet I'd be happy to see this fixed as this is really irritating when looking on your i3bar.

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#12 2015-05-11 11:54:30

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Re: (Very) high loadavg - probably bug like in kernel 3.3.5?

I found out (by chance) what causes the issue on my notebook. The load only rises, if I have an nfs-share mounted. Yesterday, I wasn't at home, the share was not mounted, the load didn't rise.

/etc/fstab on notebook:

nfsserver:/    /srv    nfs    defaults    0 0

/etc/exports on server:

/srv    192.168.2.0/24(rw,async,no_subtree_check,fsid=0,no_root_squash)

Any ideas?

Cheers, Marcus

Last edited by marcus (2015-05-11 11:55:43)

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#13 2015-05-11 12:22:55

Spider.007
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Re: (Very) high loadavg - probably bug like in kernel 3.3.5?

A quick test shows the same behaviour, I have unmounted an nfs4 share and load drops gradually

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#14 2015-05-13 15:24:54

marcus
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Re: (Very) high loadavg - probably bug like in kernel 3.3.5?

Upgrade to linux-4.0.2-1 solved the issue for me.

Cheers

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#15 2015-05-15 08:57:17

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Re: (Very) high loadavg - probably bug like in kernel 3.3.5?

I can confirm, thanks for the notification

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#16 2015-05-15 13:12:51

xy
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Re: (Very) high loadavg - probably bug like in kernel 3.3.5?

I got no nfs mounts and upgrading to linux-4.0.2-1 didnt change anything :S

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#17 2015-05-16 18:10:14

n3m
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Re: (Very) high loadavg - probably bug like in kernel 3.3.5?

I just updated and it still seems to not solve this issue.

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#18 2015-05-19 08:36:23

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Re: (Very) high loadavg - probably bug like in kernel 3.3.5?

Sounds like there are different issues. I've updated ~ 10 machines and the results were pretty obvious.

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#19 2015-05-19 17:09:22

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Re: (Very) high loadavg - probably bug like in kernel 3.3.5?

I have the same problem with kernel 4.0.3. KDE is starting VERY slow (minutes).

This is the output of cat /proc/loadavg while starting KDE Plasma:

6.42 3.32 1.35 2/441 1965

After few minutes (!!)

0.30 1.77 1.13 1/427 2094

I have other two kernels installed:
Linux-rt 3.18.13_rt9 is OK
Linux-ck same problem

--> I have tried to boot from another installation of archlinux (with LXQt) in USB stick and all seems fine. This evening I will re-check.

P.S. The problem started with kernel 3.19.x, no problem with 3.18.x

Last edited by hifi25nl (2015-05-19 17:15:21)

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#20 2015-05-20 20:39:11

xy
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Re: (Very) high loadavg - probably bug like in kernel 3.3.5?

Still got the problem with linux 4.0.4-1...

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#21 2015-05-22 21:00:05

gnubeest
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Re: (Very) high loadavg - probably bug like in kernel 3.3.5?

Threads like this are going to attract a dozen "me too" posters for wholly different causes because no one has actually looked at what's causing their high load.

If you're looking for it with htop you're probably missing processes because they're kernel threads (unhide with shift-K) or run as other users (sudo htop).

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#22 2015-05-23 16:27:30

xy
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Re: (Very) high loadavg - probably bug like in kernel 3.3.5?

gnubeest wrote:

Threads like this are going to attract a dozen "me too" posters for wholly different causes because no one has actually looked at what's causing their high load.

If you're looking for it with htop you're probably missing processes because they're kernel threads (unhide with shift-K) or run as other users (sudo htop).

I can't speak for others, but I took a look at processes (thx for your advise anyway) and thought I dont have to tell anything new, because this

n3m wrote:

What I noticed:
Right after boot the loadavg is at about 0.20, then slowly raises to 1.10. After some time working the loadavg is at about 1.40 or sometimes even higher.
When watching htop as root I can't find anything that would be at > 100% CPU usage, basically all of it (when using Chromium for example) sums up to about 20% at max.
Even without running xorg the load goes up to 1.10

is exactly my problem wink

I'm rebooting now as I updated to 4.0.4-2 and will tell if anything changed.

edit: After reboot no improvement. Load averages from 1.1 to 1.5...

Last edited by xy (2015-05-23 16:49:04)

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#23 2015-05-23 17:16:35

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Re: (Very) high loadavg - probably bug like in kernel 3.3.5?

Since I have a Conky window that strangely is the first (before the minutes I must wait for KDE to finish start process) I can see that A LOT of  processes are at very high CPU for a long time.
Nothing specific to report!

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#24 2015-06-07 17:32:58

n3m
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Re: (Very) high loadavg - probably bug like in kernel 3.3.5?

Ok, it's been a while now and it seems this issue is assigned to someone, so maybe they find a fix.
I did watch the kernel updates hoping they'd change this, but I'm on 4.0.5-1 now and this issue is still existant.

In this post, I'll include my systemd-units and the processes running after boot.

Systemd:

UNIT                                                                                     LOAD   ACTIVE SUB       DESCRIPTION
proc-sys-fs-binfmt_misc.automount                                                        loaded active waiting   Arbitrary Executable File Formats File System Automount Point
sys-devices-pci0000:00-0000:00:01.0-0000:01:00.0-backlight-acpi_video0.device            loaded active plugged   /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.0/backlight/acpi_video0
sys-devices-pci0000:00-0000:00:02.0-backlight-acpi_video1.device                         loaded active plugged   /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/backlight/acpi_video1
sys-devices-pci0000:00-0000:00:02.0-drm-card0-card0\x2dLVDS\x2d1-intel_backlight.device  loaded active plugged   /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/drm/card0/card0-LVDS-1/intel_backlight
sys-devices-pci0000:00-0000:00:1b.0-sound-card0.device                                   loaded active plugged   6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller
sys-devices-pci0000:00-0000:00:1c.1-0000:03:00.0-ieee80211-phy0-rfkill0.device           loaded active plugged   /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.1/0000:03:00.0/ieee80211/phy0/rfkill0
sys-devices-pci0000:00-0000:00:1c.1-0000:03:00.0-net-wlan0.device                        loaded active plugged   Centrino Wireless-N 100 (BGN)
sys-devices-pci0000:00-0000:00:1c.5-0000:05:00.0-net-eth0.device                         loaded active plugged   RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (U6V/U31J laptop)
sys-devices-pci0000:00-0000:00:1f.2-ata1-host0-target0:0:0-0:0:0:0-block-sda-sda1.device loaded active plugged   MKNSSDCR240GB System-reserviert
sys-devices-pci0000:00-0000:00:1f.2-ata1-host0-target0:0:0-0:0:0:0-block-sda-sda2.device loaded active plugged   MKNSSDCR240GB 2
sys-devices-pci0000:00-0000:00:1f.2-ata1-host0-target0:0:0-0:0:0:0-block-sda-sda3.device loaded active plugged   MKNSSDCR240GB arch
sys-devices-pci0000:00-0000:00:1f.2-ata1-host0-target0:0:0-0:0:0:0-block-sda.device      loaded active plugged   MKNSSDCR240GB
sys-devices-pci0000:00-0000:00:1f.2-ata3-host2-target2:0:0-2:0:0:0-block-sr0.device      loaded active plugged   Slimtype_DVD_A_DS8A8SH
sys-devices-platform-asus\x2dnb\x2dwmi-rfkill-rfkill1.device                             loaded active plugged   /sys/devices/platform/asus-nb-wmi/rfkill/rfkill1
sys-devices-platform-serial8250-tty-ttyS0.device                                         loaded active plugged   /sys/devices/platform/serial8250/tty/ttyS0
sys-devices-platform-serial8250-tty-ttyS1.device                                         loaded active plugged   /sys/devices/platform/serial8250/tty/ttyS1
sys-devices-platform-serial8250-tty-ttyS2.device                                         loaded active plugged   /sys/devices/platform/serial8250/tty/ttyS2
sys-devices-platform-serial8250-tty-ttyS3.device                                         loaded active plugged   /sys/devices/platform/serial8250/tty/ttyS3
sys-module-configfs.device                                                               loaded active plugged   /sys/module/configfs
sys-subsystem-net-devices-eth0.device                                                    loaded active plugged   RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (U6V/U31J laptop)
sys-subsystem-net-devices-wlan0.device                                                   loaded active plugged   Centrino Wireless-N 100 (BGN)
sys-subsystem-rfkill-devices-rfkill0.device                                              loaded active plugged   /sys/subsystem/rfkill/devices/rfkill0
sys-subsystem-rfkill-devices-rfkill1.device                                              loaded active plugged   /sys/subsystem/rfkill/devices/rfkill1
-.mount                                                                                  loaded active mounted   /
dev-hugepages.mount                                                                      loaded active mounted   Huge Pages File System
dev-mqueue.mount                                                                         loaded active mounted   POSIX Message Queue File System
run-user-1000.mount                                                                      loaded active mounted   /run/user/1000
sys-kernel-config.mount                                                                  loaded active mounted   Configuration File System
sys-kernel-debug.mount                                                                   loaded active mounted   Debug File System
tmp.mount                                                                                loaded active mounted   Temporary Directory
systemd-ask-password-console.path                                                        loaded active waiting   Dispatch Password Requests to Console Directory Watch
systemd-ask-password-wall.path                                                           loaded active waiting   Forward Password Requests to Wall Directory Watch
session-c2.scope                                                                         loaded active running   Session c2 of user n3m
clamd.service                                                                            loaded active running   clamav daemon
dbus.service                                                                             loaded active running   D-Bus System Message Bus
getty@tty1.service                                                                       loaded active running   Getty on tty1
kmod-static-nodes.service                                                                loaded active exited    Create list of required static device nodes for the current kernel
lm_sensors.service                                                                       loaded active exited    Initialize hardware monitoring sensors
ntpd.service                                                                             loaded active running   Network Time Service
systemd-backlight@backlight:acpi_video0.service                                          loaded active exited    Load/Save Screen Backlight Brightness of backlight:acpi_video0
systemd-backlight@backlight:acpi_video1.service                                          loaded active exited    Load/Save Screen Backlight Brightness of backlight:acpi_video1
systemd-backlight@backlight:intel_backlight.service                                      loaded active exited    Load/Save Screen Backlight Brightness of backlight:intel_backlight
systemd-journal-flush.service                                                            loaded active exited    Flush Journal to Persistent Storage
systemd-journald.service                                                                 loaded active running   Journal Service
systemd-logind.service                                                                   loaded active running   Login Service
systemd-modules-load.service                                                             loaded active exited    Load Kernel Modules
systemd-random-seed.service                                                              loaded active exited    Load/Save Random Seed
systemd-remount-fs.service                                                               loaded active exited    Remount Root and Kernel File Systems
systemd-rfkill@rfkill0.service                                                           loaded active exited    Load/Save RF Kill Switch Status of rfkill0
systemd-rfkill@rfkill1.service                                                           loaded active exited    Load/Save RF Kill Switch Status of rfkill1
systemd-sysctl.service                                                                   loaded active exited    Apply Kernel Variables
systemd-tmpfiles-setup-dev.service                                                       loaded active exited    Create Static Device Nodes in /dev
systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service                                                           loaded active exited    Create Volatile Files and Directories
systemd-udev-trigger.service                                                             loaded active exited    udev Coldplug all Devices
systemd-udevd.service                                                                    loaded active running   udev Kernel Device Manager
systemd-update-utmp.service                                                              loaded active exited    Update UTMP about System Boot/Shutdown
systemd-user-sessions.service                                                            loaded active exited    Permit User Sessions
systemd-vconsole-setup.service                                                           loaded active exited    Setup Virtual Console
user@1000.service                                                                        loaded active running   User Manager for UID 1000
-.slice                                                                                  loaded active active    Root Slice
system-getty.slice                                                                       loaded active active    system-getty.slice
system-systemd\x2dbacklight.slice                                                        loaded active active    system-systemd\x2dbacklight.slice
system-systemd\x2drfkill.slice                                                           loaded active active    system-systemd\x2drfkill.slice
system.slice                                                                             loaded active active    System Slice
user-1000.slice                                                                          loaded active active    user-1000.slice
user.slice                                                                               loaded active active    User and Session Slice
dbus.socket                                                                              loaded active running   D-Bus System Message Bus Socket
dm-event.socket                                                                          loaded active listening Device-mapper event daemon FIFOs
lvm2-lvmetad.socket                                                                      loaded active listening LVM2 metadata daemon socket
systemd-initctl.socket                                                                   loaded active listening /dev/initctl Compatibility Named Pipe
systemd-journald-dev-log.socket                                                          loaded active running   Journal Socket (/dev/log)
systemd-journald.socket                                                                  loaded active running   Journal Socket
systemd-shutdownd.socket                                                                 loaded active listening Delayed Shutdown Socket
systemd-udevd-control.socket                                                             loaded active running   udev Control Socket
systemd-udevd-kernel.socket                                                              loaded active running   udev Kernel Socket
basic.target                                                                             loaded active active    Basic System
cryptsetup.target                                                                        loaded active active    Encrypted Volumes
getty.target                                                                             loaded active active    Login Prompts
graphical.target                                                                         loaded active active    Graphical Interface
local-fs-pre.target                                                                      loaded active active    Local File Systems (Pre)
local-fs.target                                                                          loaded active active    Local File Systems
multi-user.target                                                                        loaded active active    Multi-User System
paths.target                                                                             loaded active active    Paths
remote-fs.target                                                                         loaded active active    Remote File Systems
slices.target                                                                            loaded active active    Slices
sockets.target                                                                           loaded active active    Sockets
sound.target                                                                             loaded active active    Sound Card
swap.target                                                                              loaded active active    Swap
sysinit.target                                                                           loaded active active    System Initialization
timers.target                                                                            loaded active active    Timers
logrotate.timer                                                                          loaded active waiting   Daily rotation of log files
man-db.timer                                                                             loaded active waiting   Daily man-db cache update
shadow.timer                                                                             loaded active waiting   Daily verification of password and group files
systemd-tmpfiles-clean.timer                                                             loaded active waiting   Daily Cleanup of Temporary Directories

LOAD   = Reflects whether the unit definition was properly loaded.
ACTIVE = The high-level unit activation state, i.e. generalization of SUB.
SUB    = The low-level unit activation state, values depend on unit type.

94 loaded units listed. Pass --all to see loaded but inactive units, too.
To show all installed unit files use 'systemctl list-unit-files'.

and the output of ps aux

USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
root         1  1.5  0.0  34424  4880 ?        Ss   15:36   0:00 /sbin/init
root         2  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    15:36   0:00 [kthreadd]
root         3  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    15:36   0:00 [ksoftirqd/0]
root         4  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    15:36   0:00 [kworker/0:0]
root         5  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   15:36   0:00 [kworker/0:0H]
root         6  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    15:36   0:00 [kworker/u32:0]
root         7  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    15:36   0:00 [rcu_preempt]
root         8  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    15:36   0:00 [rcu_sched]
root         9  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    15:36   0:00 [rcu_bh]
root        10  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    15:36   0:00 [migration/0]
root        11  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    15:36   0:00 [watchdog/0]
root        12  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    15:36   0:00 [watchdog/1]
root        13  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    15:36   0:00 [migration/1]
root        14  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    15:36   0:00 [ksoftirqd/1]
root        15  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    15:36   0:00 [kworker/1:0]
root        16  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   15:36   0:00 [kworker/1:0H]
root        17  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    15:36   0:00 [watchdog/2]
root        18  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    15:36   0:00 [migration/2]
root        19  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    15:36   0:00 [ksoftirqd/2]
root        20  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    15:36   0:00 [kworker/2:0]
root        21  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   15:36   0:00 [kworker/2:0H]
root        22  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    15:36   0:00 [watchdog/3]
root        23  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    15:36   0:00 [migration/3]
root        24  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    15:36   0:00 [ksoftirqd/3]
root        25  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    15:36   0:00 [kworker/3:0]
root        26  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   15:36   0:00 [kworker/3:0H]
root        27  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    15:36   0:00 [watchdog/4]
root        28  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    15:36   0:00 [migration/4]
root        29  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    15:36   0:00 [ksoftirqd/4]
root        30  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    15:36   0:00 [kworker/4:0]
root        31  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   15:36   0:00 [kworker/4:0H]
root        32  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    15:36   0:00 [watchdog/5]
root        33  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    15:36   0:00 [migration/5]
root        34  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    15:36   0:00 [ksoftirqd/5]
root        35  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    15:36   0:00 [kworker/5:0]
root        36  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   15:36   0:00 [kworker/5:0H]
root        37  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    15:36   0:00 [watchdog/6]
root        38  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    15:36   0:00 [migration/6]
root        39  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    15:36   0:00 [ksoftirqd/6]
root        40  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    15:36   0:00 [kworker/6:0]
root        41  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   15:36   0:00 [kworker/6:0H]
root        42  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    15:36   0:00 [watchdog/7]
root        43  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    15:36   0:00 [migration/7]
root        44  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    15:36   0:00 [ksoftirqd/7]
root        45  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    15:36   0:00 [kworker/7:0]
root        46  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   15:36   0:00 [kworker/7:0H]
root        47  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   15:36   0:00 [khelper]
root        48  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    15:36   0:00 [kdevtmpfs]
root        49  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   15:36   0:00 [netns]
root        50  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   15:36   0:00 [perf]
root        51  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    15:36   0:00 [khungtaskd]
root        52  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   15:36   0:00 [writeback]
root        53  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        SN   15:36   0:00 [ksmd]
root        54  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        SN   15:36   0:00 [khugepaged]
root        55  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   15:36   0:00 [crypto]
root        56  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   15:36   0:00 [kintegrityd]
root        57  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   15:36   0:00 [bioset]
root        58  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   15:36   0:00 [kblockd]
root        59  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   15:36   0:00 [devfreq_wq]
root        60  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    15:36   0:00 [kworker/0:1]
root        61  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    15:36   0:00 [kswapd0]
root        62  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    15:36   0:00 [fsnotify_mark]
root        68  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   15:36   0:00 [kthrotld]
root        69  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    15:36   0:00 [kworker/1:1]
root        73  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   15:36   0:00 [ipv6_addrconf]
root        74  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   15:36   0:00 [deferwq]
root        75  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    15:36   0:00 [kworker/u32:1]
root        76  0.1  0.0      0     0 ?        S    15:36   0:00 [kworker/6:1]
root       105  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    15:36   0:00 [kworker/4:1]
root       106  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   15:36   0:00 [ata_sff]
root       107  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    15:36   0:00 [kworker/3:1]
root       108  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    15:36   0:00 [kworker/7:1]
root       109  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    15:36   0:00 [kworker/3:2]
root       110  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    15:36   0:00 [scsi_eh_0]
root       111  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   15:36   0:00 [scsi_tmf_0]
root       112  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    15:36   0:00 [scsi_eh_1]
root       113  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   15:36   0:00 [scsi_tmf_1]
root       114  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    15:36   0:00 [scsi_eh_2]
root       115  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   15:36   0:00 [scsi_tmf_2]
root       116  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    15:36   0:00 [scsi_eh_3]
root       117  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   15:36   0:00 [scsi_tmf_3]
root       118  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    15:36   0:00 [scsi_eh_4]
root       119  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   15:36   0:00 [scsi_tmf_4]
root       120  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    15:36   0:00 [scsi_eh_5]
root       121  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   15:36   0:00 [scsi_tmf_5]
root       122  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    15:36   0:00 [kworker/u32:2]
root       123  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    15:36   0:00 [kworker/u32:3]
root       124  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    15:36   0:00 [kworker/u32:4]
root       125  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    15:36   0:00 [kworker/u32:5]
root       126  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    15:36   0:00 [kworker/u32:6]
root       127  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    15:36   0:00 [kworker/u32:7]
root       128  0.3  0.0      0     0 ?        S    15:36   0:00 [kworker/1:2]
root       129  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    15:36   0:00 [kworker/7:2]
root       139  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    15:36   0:00 [kworker/7:3]
root       140  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   15:36   0:00 [kworker/0:1H]
root       141  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    15:36   0:00 [kworker/2:1]
root       143  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    15:36   0:00 [kworker/0:2]
root       147  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   15:36   0:00 [kworker/1:1H]
root       153  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    15:36   0:00 [jbd2/sda3-8]
root       154  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   15:36   0:00 [ext4-rsv-conver]
root       172  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    15:36   0:00 [kworker/5:1]
root       176  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   15:36   0:00 [kworker/2:1H]
root       183  0.1  0.1  38628 10384 ?        Ss   15:36   0:00 /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-journald
root       186  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    15:36   0:00 [kworker/5:2]
root       203  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   15:36   0:00 [kworker/6:1H]
root       213  0.2  0.0  35012  3472 ?        Ss   15:36   0:00 /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-udevd
root       215  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    15:36   0:00 [kworker/2:2]
root       240  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   15:36   0:00 [acpi_thermal_pm]
root       243  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    15:36   0:00 [irq/38-mei_me]
root       247  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   15:36   0:00 [kworker/4:1H]
root       271  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   15:36   0:00 [kworker/5:1H]
root       272  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   15:36   0:00 [cfg80211]
root       279  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   15:36   0:00 [kpsmoused]
root       281  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    15:36   0:00 [irq/39-iwlwifi]
root       286  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    15:36   0:00 [kworker/0:3]
root       293  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    15:36   0:00 [kworker/4:2]
root       306  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    15:36   0:00 [kworker/6:2]
root       310  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   15:36   0:00 [hd-audio0]
dbus       335  0.0  0.0  34144  3120 ?        Ss   15:36   0:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system --address=systemd: --nofork --nopidfile --systemd-activation
root       337  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   15:36   0:00 [kfd_process_wq]
root       338  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   15:36   0:00 [kvm-irqfd-clean]
root       339  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    15:36   0:00 [kworker/5:3]
ntp        342  0.1  0.2 107780 15780 ?        SLsl 15:36   0:00 /usr/bin/ntpd -g -u ntp:ntp
root       344  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   15:36   0:00 [iwlwifi]
root       371  0.0  0.0  15204  2588 ?        Ss   15:36   0:00 /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-logind
root       376  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   15:36   0:00 [kmemstick]
root       377  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        D    15:36   0:00 [rtsx_usb_ms_1]
root       379  0.0  0.0  73856  3764 ?        Ss   15:36   0:00 login -- n3m
root       381  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    15:36   0:00 [kworker/3:3]
root       383  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   15:36   0:00 [led_workqueue]
root       392  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   15:36   0:00 [ttm_swap]
root       394  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   15:36   0:00 [radeon-crtc]
root       395  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   15:36   0:00 [radeon-crtc]
root       396  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   15:36   0:00 [radeon-crtc]
root       397  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   15:36   0:00 [radeon-crtc]
root       398  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   15:36   0:00 [radeon-crtc]
root       399  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   15:36   0:00 [radeon-crtc]
clamav     403  0.0  5.0 441144 303384 ?       Ssl  15:36   0:00 /usr/bin/clamd
n3m    405  0.0  0.0  35648  4132 ?        Ss   15:36   0:00 /usr/lib/systemd/systemd --user
n3m    407  0.0  0.0  85208  1652 ?        S    15:36   0:00 (sd-pam)
n3m    409  0.2  0.0  17472  5236 tty1     Ss   15:36   0:00 -bash
root       414  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   15:36   0:00 [kworker/3:1H]
root       419  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   15:37   0:00 [kworker/7:1H]
n3m    420  0.0  0.0  36604  3420 tty1     R+   15:37   0:00 ps aux

As I don't see anything suspicious, does anybody else? I tried killing clamav on the blank tty, but it wasn't the source of the high load.

gnubeest wrote:

Threads like this are going to attract a dozen "me too" posters for wholly different causes because no one has actually looked at what's causing their high load.

Now with Conky + i3bar I see the load is at 1.10 (as I'm typing), whilst the CPU usage is actually at 2%. I posted my processes, but I can't see anything else than system processes running as root and only a few of my own ones.

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#25 2015-06-09 18:07:34

LinuxakSVK
Member
Registered: 2015-05-05
Posts: 3

Re: (Very) high loadavg - probably bug like in kernel 3.3.5?

same here, cant find process whitch make this "high" load average..still LA > 1

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