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From: ken@stonehenge.netadventure.com (Ken Mugrage)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Why is my load so high?
Date: 8 Apr 1997 23:22:54 GMT
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I just upgraded from 2.1 to 3.0, and now my system load is going bonkers. 
I'll just be working along and the load will suddenly go from it's standard 
of .2 to 1.1 and sit there. What is really strange is I'm not doing anything 
at the time.

Below is a C&P from a top that shows a 98.8% idle cpu and plenty of memory, 
yet a load that is much higher than I would normally see with 2.1.

Any ideas at all would be much appreciated.

load averages:  1.13,  1.08,  0.84
54 processes:  1 running, 49 sleeping, 4 stopped
CPU states:  0.6% user,  0.0% nice,  0.6% system,  0.0% interrupt, 98.8% idle
Memory: Real: 5880K/23M Virt: 19M/290M Free: 29M

  PID USERNAME PRI NICE  SIZE   RES STATE   TIME   WCPU    CPU COMMAND
  293 ken        2    0 1396K 1116K sleep   4:39  0.05%  0.05% pine
15940 ken        2    0  568K 1312K sleep   0:29  0.00%  0.00% xterm
 6260 ken       18    0  316K  364K sleep   0:00  0.00%  0.00% screen
  165 www       18    0  784K  152K sleep   0:00  0.00%  0.00% <ns-httpd>
  115 root      18    0   72K   84K sleep   0:14  0.00%  0.00% update
   20 root      10    0  748K 2260K sleep   0:02  0.00%  0.00% mount_mfs
15892 root      10    0  352K  796K sleep   0:00  0.00%  0.00% xdm
16085 ken       10    0  708K  728K sleep   0:03  0.00%  0.00% bash
15943 ken       10    0  704K  720K sleep   0:00  0.00%  0.00% bash
26887 root      10    0  360K  420K sleep   0:10  0.00%  0.00% httpd
    1 root      10    0  168K  312K sleep   0:02  0.00%  0.00% init

Thanks

Ken