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Date:      Wed, 5 Nov 2008 20:53:20 +0100
From:      Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>
To:        Gary Kline <kline@thought.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: console locked again:: load over 2.00
Message-ID:  <20081105195320.GA35044@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <20081105194506.GA18676@thought.org>
References:  <20081105194506.GA18676@thought.org>

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On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 11:45:10AM -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
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> Hey guys,
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> Any ideas *why* my load is so high when my desktop wasn't touched for
> 9, 10 hours?  I was running mostly KDE3 konsoles, and had a few other
> processes going, the apps iconisized.  The server is still running;
> I've killed everything I can think of to reduce the load.  It may be
> that the screen won't come back if the load is > 1.00.  I'm upgrading
> my kernel to see if *that* has any effect.  O/wise, I'm out of ideas.

Try leaving 'top -SI' running in a console window. That should tell you what
the culprit is.

Roland
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R.F.Smith                                   http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/
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