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From: "Alex.Boisvert" <boia01@castor.GEL.USherb.CA>
To: Mark Mayo <mark@quickweb.com>
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Subject: Re: userland PPP giving weird load numbers
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> 
> I've had this problem since 2.1x, and it appaears to still happen
> occasionally in 2.2-ALPHA:
> 
> mark:{105}/home/mark % w
>  8:14AM  up 46 mins, 3 users, load averages: 0.99, 0.97, 0.88
> USER     TTY FROM              LOGIN@  IDLE WHAT
> mark     p1  :0.0              7:28AM    45 -tcsh (tcsh)
> mark     p2  :0.0              7:28AM     - w
> mark     p3  :0.0              7:32AM    37 ppp
> 
> the ppp process causes the high load (which isn't real, BTW). Top shows it
> as not doing a thing. As soon as I kill ppp off, the load drops right back
> down.
> 

I've noticed the same thing in 2.2-ALPHA since my installation.  The load 
goes between .80 to 1.1 when doing (moderate) FTP transmissions with 
userland PPP.

I don't know if the load is real or not because I have not verified that 
impact on performance it made.

Alex Boisvert