NPROC USERNAME SWAP RSS MEMORY TIME CPU
320 oracle 23G 22G 69% 582:55:11 85%
47 root 148M 101M 0.3% 99:29:40 0.3%
53 rafmsdb 38M 60M 0.2% 0:46:17 0.1%
1 smmsp 1296K 5440K 0.0% 0:00:08 0.0%
7 daemon 7368K 7392K 0.0% 0:08:35 0.0%
Total: 428 processes, 8117 lwps, load averages: 14.96, 15.73, 16.51
Above ouput is taken from prstat -a on sun database server.Kernel is 5.10 Generic_127127-11. Hardware is Sun-Fire-V890.
1) Can any one tell me why the load average is so high though the cpu utilization is 85%.
2) what is lwps and is it harmfull for the system