How to debug high system load?

[Joe Zeff]

On 07/15/2012 01:27 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote:
> Thanks for the nice explanation. But sadly this doesn't help either.
> Earlier the load average on login would be ~ 1-1.5. With these changes,
> it starts at ~ 2 and after about 5 minutes settles to ~ 1-1.2. For
> example now my laptop has been running for 50 minutes and load is
> hovering over 1. :(

OK, you've eliminated disk IO as the cause of your high load.