M. Jackson Wilkinson on Mon, 5 Mar 2001 21:55:18 -0500


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Re: [PLUG] high load average 

On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 09:15:50PM -0500, MaD dUCK wrote:
> someone explain this to me:

what kernel are you running?  if you're on 2.4 kernels, there are bugs that
cause processes in an uninterruptable sleep state to run up the load average
+1 per device * number of processes in that state.  note that the load
average is not just CPU load.

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