Ubuntu issues.[solved]

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Basically I am running Ubuntu on this box:

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augustus@augustus:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 15
model           : 2
model name      : Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.40GHz
stepping        : 9
cpu MHz         : 2395.974
cache size      : 128 KB
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 2
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe up cid xtpr
bogomips        : 4799.29
clflush size    : 64

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And when I idle, I get this:

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top - 12:19:56 up 5 days, 13:02,  2 users,  load average: 2.63, 2.30, 2.31
Tasks: 100 total,   3 running,  97 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s): 39.2%us, 52.2%sy,  7.3%ni,  0.0%id,  0.0%wa,  1.3%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Mem:    223436k total,   218404k used,     5032k free,     1652k buffers
Swap:  1413680k total,   204136k used,  1209544k free,    54548k cached

I have searched and searched for methods of debugging this issue but I can't quite seem to come up with anything. What direction should I look towards?
Still a bit noobish with the linux kernel to determine what could cause issues...etc.But the load average should not be this high while idling, right?

Edit:

Just as a comparison, it shouldn't be the CPU because I also have this system running Ubuntu Server 7.10:

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root@Claudius:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 15
model           : 2
model name      : Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.50GHz
stepping        : 9
cpu MHz         : 2486.789
cache size      : 128 KB
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 2
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe up cid xtpr
bogomips        : 4976.84
clflush size    : 64

which uses this much resources

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top - 07:17:58 up 15:53,  1 user,  load average: 0.03, 0.01, 0.00
Tasks:  65 total,   3 running,  62 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  0.0%us,  0.0%sy,  0.0%ni,100.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Mem:    254372k total,   219188k used,    35184k free,    37056k buffers
Swap:   738948k total,      168k used,   738780k free,    81688k cached

..they look like the same systems, but they are not.


EDIT X @

Well, it appears to be a bug with Trackerd which does indexing on the system and tends to use a lot of system resources. It seems that disabling this/removing it from sessions ultimately fixed it.

To do so::

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System>Preferences>Indexing Preferences. Uncheck the two check boxes in the first tab. You can also go System>Preferences>Sessions and uncheck the Tracker entry.

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[bad_brain]

hm, what process is using that much resources?
check it with:

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ps aux

and yes, the load average is much too high, everything more than 1.00 is not tolerable, a good system should never be over 0.5 for a longer period (at least that's how I want my systems). usually it is caused by a process that has too less memory available...a usual suspect is MySQL for example.

check the processes as mentioned above and then the logs...

p.s. meh...posted at the same time as you edited your post big-e...

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It's running pretty good now, I just got done streaming a video and this is the results of disabling trackerd which is currently in Alpha stages (why the hell would they release it in Alpha?)

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top - 13:47:46 up 53 min,  2 users,  load average: 0.91, 0.85, 0.56
Tasks:  91 total,   1 running,  90 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  8.6%us,  3.0%sy,  0.0%ni, 88.4%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Mem:    223436k total,   214168k used,     9268k free,     2416k buffers
Swap:  1413680k total,    57296k used,  1356384k free,    55292k cached