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Re: Load on master.



On Tue, Nov 03, 1998 at 04:30:30PM -0500, Steve Dunham wrote:
> What is up with master? It has been really bogged down recently.
> 
> The load is about 4, but top shows:
> 
> CPU states: 13.3% user,  5.6% system,  0.0% nice, 82.2% idle

82% idle with load of 4 usually means that the system is io-waiting most of
the time. Since 23MB cached shows that the system has no ram shortage i
think its especially stuff like md5sum which reads a lot of data blocks
which generates the load.

> 14639 maor      12   0   324  324   276 R       0  1.7  0.5   0:00 md5sum
> 14598 maor       7   0  1040 1040   824 S       0  0.3  1.6   0:00 dpkg-scanpac

Greetings
Bernd
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