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- From: john@phobos.sscl.uwo.ca (John Tucker)
- Subject: Load average way too high
- Organization: University of Western Ontario
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 14:58:23 GMT
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- I hope some one has some clues on this.
-
- We are running Ultrix 4.2A on a miscellaneous bunch of Decstations
- (3xxx's 5xxx's) and are running into a strange problem.
-
- Every once in a while with no real pattern, the load average (as reported
- by w -u) climbs and gets up around 3.50.
-
- There are at most 3 or 4 users logged in at any time, so this seems way too
- high. A 'ps -aux' reveals that 'inetd' and 'syslog' are the major
- consumers of %CPU and %MEMORY.
-
- I have checked the /etc/*.conf files and compared them with other unix
- systems here and they are similar. Any suggestions??
-
- Let me know by e-mail, and I will summarize
- --
- jtucker@uwo.ca John Tucker
-
- A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest
- in students.
-