Re: high load average

[MaD dUCK <madduck@madduck.net>]

[cc'ing this to PLUG because it seems interesting...]

also sprach kmself@ix.netcom.com (on Mon, 05 Mar 2001 08:02:51PM -0800):
> It's not 200% loaded.  There are two processes in the run queue.  I'd do

huh? is that what 2.00 means? the average length of the run queue?

that would explain it because i found two STAT = D processes which i
cannot kill (any hints what to do when kill -9 doesn't work and the
/proc/`pidof` directory cannot be removed?). that's why 2.00.

thanks,
martin

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