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Re: /proc/loadavg disagrees with top and ps



Tim Connors wrote:

As a test one day, I mounted nfs over the modem, and ran about 300
processes doing a find over the modem. CPU usage was ~10%, 15 minute
load was above 200 :)

On a RHL box (Pentium II 233, 128 Mbytes), logrotate decided it was going to rotate indefinitely.

It was few days before  I noticed: by then loadaverage was approaching 120.

I was on the L-390 list back then, so I threw them a snipped to sho how busy _my_ server was, then got back to sorting it out. Slowly.

Oh - and the waiting 5 seconds for your bash *shell* to echo a single
character keypress. <shudder>.

At present I'm working from home by dialup. I frequently run gvim as a scratch-pad from which to multiclick and paste commands into my multitudinous terminals. Otheriwse the dialup would be unusable while getting my Sarge fixes, my email, checking /..

Well, not the last.

Pings often exceed 5 secs.


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John

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