Very high load average but no cpu utilization ? - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Rajesh Kumar Mallah.
Subject Very high load average but no cpu utilization ?
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Msg-id 200205111007.47338.mallah@trade-india.com
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Hi Again,

10:22am  up 15:06,  1 user,  load average: 9.02, 9.02, 8.98
85 processes: 73 sleeping, 1 running, 11 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states:  0.0% user,  0.4% system,  0.0% nice, 99.4% idle
Mem:  1028484K av, 1017488K used,   10996K free,       0K shrd,    8996K buff
Swap:  971004K av,  240344K used,  730660K free                  760208K
cached

In my postgresql server load avearge is very high but cpu is 99.4 % idle

this is not strictly a pgsql issue but , can anyone tell me how can i
find what is loading my server heavily


regds
Mallah.





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