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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!usc!newshub.cts.com!news.aloha.net!the.satanic.org!eric From: eric@satanic.org (Eric Sorenson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: Why is my load so high? Date: 10 Apr 1997 07:12:56 GMT Organization: I need to put my ORGANIZATION here. Lines: 18 Message-ID: <5ii3to$52n@nuhou.aloha.net> References: <5iek0e$ho$1@madmax.keyway.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: the.satanic.org Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:6619 Are you still running the adminweb apache httpd server? There is a known (to me at least) bug with Apache on bsd that will run the load up to 1.0 and leave it hovering there until the httpd receives a SIGHUP. Try 'kill -term `cat /var/run/adminweb.pid`' and see if your load average doesn't drop dramatically. Haven't heard of a fix yet, and I've seen this since I first started running Apache on BSDI two years ago. P.S. I think it's a bug in the reporting of load not in actually _running_ anything so there's not necessarily a runaway process (i.e. Pine which does that a lot) that's sucking up CPU cycles in between 'top' polls. -- eric sorenson / root at satanic dot org "What kind of kid were you?" "A very disturbed one. I was so disturbed. My parents brought me to a psychologist- they thought I was autistic..." -- Spamford, from the news.com interview. But he's better now... REALLY!