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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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Subject: Re: busy machine - doing nothing.
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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  
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