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From: Damian Gerow <dgerow@afflictions.org>
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Subject: Re: load > 1, no process using >10% CPU...?
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Thus spake Damian Gerow (dgerow@afflictions.org) [19/04/05 21:21]:
: I'm a little fuzzy as to /how/ load is calculated, but why would my system
: think that it's doing all kinds of work when ps, top, and systat can't
: really tell me /what/ it's doing?

It turned out to be a runaway xmms process.  But I still find it strange
that it didn't show anything obvious in top.