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- From: karrer@bernina.ethz.ch (Andreas Karrer)
- Subject: Re: Load average way too high
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.180613.14316@bernina.ethz.ch>
- Organization: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, CH
- References: <1993Jan22.145823.10967@julian.uwo.ca>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 18:06:13 GMT
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- john@phobos.sscl.uwo.ca (John Tucker) writes:
-
- >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.
-
- I have seen this on 4.2a too: apparently the load av counter gets mixed
- up by an integral number every now and then; your "3.50" should
- probably be "0.50". It usu fixes itself within a day or a half, or by
- a reboot :-(
-
- This - apart from annoy - is only a problem for daemons that use
- the load ave for some decision: sendmail, nntpd etc.
-
- Processes in resource-wait state (check with ps aux|grep D) also contribute
- to the load average; any hung tape drives around?
-
- - Andi
-
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- Andi Karrer, Communication Systems, ETH Zuerich, Switzerland
- karrer@bernina.ethz.ch - Objects in mirror are closer than they appear
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