Re: Load Averages

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From: r... Robert Krawitz
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 1989 22:20

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Last year some time someone did a ps and noticed about 800 syslog
processes hanging around and sent a message to system support (where a
lot of system groupies, such as myself, hang out).  I took a look and
noticed that they all had the same parent (some random shell).  I ran
'top' and killed the process from there.  The load average was something
nominal like 1 or thereabouts at this time.

The screen updated about 5 minutes later, and the 1-minute load average
was about 700 or so.  It updated again a couple of minutes later, and
more or less settled down after that.  Never did quite figure out why it
happened, but it was definitely fun to watch.
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