[asterisk-users] VERY HIGH LOAD AVERAGE: top - 10:27:57 up 199 days, 5:18, 2 users, load average: 67.75, 62.55, 55.75

[Muro, Sam]

Hi Team

Can someone advice me on how i can lower the load average on my asterisk
server?

dahdi-linux-2.1.0.4
dahdi-tools-2.1.0.2
libpri-1.4.10.1
asterisk-1.4.25.1

2 X TE412P Digium cards on ISDN PRI

Im using the system as an IVR without any transcoding or bridging

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top - 10:27:57 up 199 days,  5:18,  2 users,  load average: 67.75, 62.55,
55.75
Tasks: 149 total,   1 running, 148 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie Cpu0 
: 10.3%us, 32.0%sy,  0.0%ni, 57.3%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.3%si,  0.0%st
Cpu1  : 10.6%us, 34.6%sy,  0.0%ni, 54.8%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si, 
0.0%st
Cpu2  : 13.3%us, 36.5%sy,  0.0%ni, 49.8%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.3%si, 
0.0%st
Cpu3  :  8.6%us, 39.5%sy,  0.0%ni, 51.8%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si, 
0.0%st
Cpu4  :  7.3%us, 38.0%sy,  0.0%ni, 54.7%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si, 
0.0%st
Cpu5  : 17.9%us, 37.5%sy,  0.0%ni, 44.5%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si, 
0.0%st
Cpu6  : 13.3%us, 37.2%sy,  0.0%ni, 49.5%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si, 
0.0%st
Cpu7  : 12.7%us, 37.3%sy,  0.0%ni, 50.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si, 
0.0%st
Mem:   3961100k total,  3837920k used,   123180k free,   108944k buffers
Swap:   779144k total,       56k used,   779088k free,  3602540k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND 683
root      15   0 97968  36m 5616 S 307.7  0.9  41457:34 asterisk
17176 root      15   0  2196 1052  800 R  0.7  0.0   0:00.32 top
    1 root      15   0  2064  592  512 S  0.0  0.0   0:13.96 init
    2 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   5:27.80 migration/0 3
root      34  19     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.11 ksoftirqd/0 4
root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 watchdog/0 5
root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   1:07.67 migration/1 6
root      34  19     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.09 ksoftirqd/1 7
root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 watchdog/1 8
root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   1:16.92 migration/2 9
root      34  19     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.03 ksoftirqd/2
   10 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 watchdog/2 11
root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   1:34.54 migration/3 12
root      34  19     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.15 ksoftirqd/3 13
root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 watchdog/3 14
root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:54.66 migration/4 15
root      34  19     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.01 ksoftirqd/4 16
root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 watchdog/4 17
root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   1:39.64 migration/5 18
root      39  19     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.21 ksoftirqd/5 19
root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 watchdog/5 20
root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   1:06.27 migration/6 21
root      34  19     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.03 ksoftirqd/6 22
root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 watchdog/6 23
root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   1:23.24 migration/7 24
root      34  19     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.17 ksoftirqd/7 25
root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 watchdog/7 26
root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:25.70 events/0 27 root
     10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:37.83 events/1 28 root     
10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:15.67 events/2 29 root      10 
-5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:40.36 events/3 30 root      10  -5  
  0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:16.45 events/4
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Thanks
Sam