Hi,

I am seeing very high kernel usage and very high load averages on my system (Although we are not loading much data to our database). Here is the output of top...does anyone know what i should be looking at?

Thanks,

Lorraine

last pid: 13144; load averages: 22.32, 19.81, 16.78 09:23:50
165 processes: 148 sleeping, 12 running, 1 zombie, 4 on cpu
CPU states: 0.2% idle, 75.5% user, 24.2% kernel, 0.1% iowait, 0.0% swap
Memory: 12G real, 185M free, 17G swap in use, 603M swap free

PID USERNAME LWP PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME CPU COMMAND
6653 informix 2 51 -10 5758M 4835M cpu/6 513:14 8.35% oninit
6652 informix 2 51 -10 5759M 4841M run 556:36 8.25% oninit
6654 informix 2 50 -10 5758M 4830M run 487:37 8.21% oninit
6655 informix 2 50 -10 5758M 4824M run 470:20 8.07% oninit
6633 informix 2 51 -10 5759M 4841M run 913:09 7.28% oninit
15233 metrica 1 44 2 16M 15M run 35:23 5.66% perl
12897 metrica 1 36 2 9968K 9080K cpu/2 0:57 5.14% perl
12496 metrica 1 30 0 1136K 880K run 1:52 4.93% tar
12913 metrica 1 36 2 11M 10M run 0:56 4.74% perl
6647 informix 2 59 -20 5757M 5088M sleep 43.4H 4.64% oninit
6648 informix 2 59 -20 5757M 5084M sleep 35.6H 3.71% oninit
11260 metrica 4 40 0 3946M 557M run 268:29 3.04% metrica_load
12922 metrica 1 60 2 11M 11M sleep 0:49 2.71% perl
6649 informix 2 59 -20 5757M 5090M sleep 27.4H 2.68% oninit
6650 informix 2 59 -20 5757M 5057M sleep 16.9H 2.08% oninit