High load average (FC5)

[Jeff Vian]

On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 00:32 +0200, nicola .:kOoLiNuS:. losito wrote:
> Il giorno ven, 14/04/2006 alle 16.36 -0400, Jeffrey Ross ha scritto:
> > noticed this morning that the system is running with a reported load 
> > average of: 7.15, 7.26, 7.16
> 
> my 2 FC5 boxed had a "high" load of 2,something just browsing the
> internet and chatting on IRC & some im's.
> 
> after having "killed" beagled and related helper on one of the box now i
> have a more "manageable":
> 
> [nicola at cerebro ~]$ uptime
> 00:15:38 up 1 day, 14:04,  2 users,  load average: 0.82, 0.71, 0.65
> 
> ... now i have to understand why on the laptop the Gnome System Monitor
> says to me that i have 80% of disk usage {always simply browsing and
> chatting}

Disk usage has nothing to do with processes running.  It has to do with
the amount of free disk space.

What is the output of 'df'?
That should show used and free data for each mounted partition.