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Linux CPU Load always 0

I have the following Problem on a vServer (Ubuntu 16.04.3, 64bit, 4 cores, 8GB RAM; openVZ 7): $ cat /proc/loadavg 0.00 0.01 0.01 0/1 5719 Moreover htop shows a CPU load of 0 for each core. Even when starting 4 processes, e.g. Python to create Primes, the overall cpu load is 0. The processes itself shows nearly 100% in htop:

htop with some python processes

So, any ideas how to solve this problem and get the correct load average again?

Maybe the problem correlates with the following: I installed i7z (from the default repositorys). Of course it didn't work on a vServer with xeon cores. Then I removed (apt-get purge i7z) it. But I'm not sure whether this was the problem.

Btw: When starting htop, top, uptime, /proc/avgload as root I get the same results.

Solution

  • For all intrested people: The problem was solved two days ago. The admin of the server told me a few month ago that it isn't a problem with the real server, just with my virtual machine. However, two days ago they did a firmware upgrade. Now it's working again.