Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 20:31:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Paul Missman <missmanp@milo.cfw.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, abbott at MPCA <jabbott@wolf.co.net> Subject: Re: busy machine - doing nothing. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970916202959.4310G-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <199709161452.HAA28121@hub.freebsd.org>
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Let me add something here, just noticed it: > > 163 root 10 0 224K 212K sleep 0:37 0.00% 0.00% runbb.sh You're running Big Brother. It kicks off a flurry of processes and network accesses every so often, and that might be pushing up your load average. I've done a bit of twiddling with BB, and I know how easy it is to make the system load skyrocket when playing with sh scripts. :) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo
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