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>From: Schlomo Schapiro <schapiro@clerk.pi.huji.ac.il>
>To: Linu-IL Mailing List <linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il>
>Subject: Strange very high load
>Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 18:15:31 +0300 (IDDT)
>
>Hi,
>
>I am suddenly getting a very high load (>10) but the actual number of
>processes stays more or less constant. Also the CPU utilisation is low
>(10%). This is a PIII 500MHz with 256 MB RAM (which was not detected
>automatically, btw). The problem is that this high load is blocking all
>kind of programs and I can't run new programs.
>
>Did anybody experience such a problem ?
>
>How can I find out what program is causing this high load (as I understand
>the load reflects the number of processes spawned per second. It seems
>that there is a program that spawns all the time new processes, how can I
>find it ?)
>
>Schlomo
>
>--
>Schlomo Schapiro
>Computation Authority
>Hebrew University of Jerusalem
>
>Tel: ++972 / 2 / 65-84404
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>email: schapiro@clerk.pi.huji.ac.il
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>
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