Re: Load on master.
On Tue, Nov 03, 1998 at 04:30:30PM -0500, Steve Dunham wrote:
> What is up with master? It has been really bogged down recently.
>
> The load is about 4, but top shows:
>
> CPU states: 13.3% user, 5.6% system, 0.0% nice, 82.2% idle
82% idle with load of 4 usually means that the system is io-waiting most of
the time. Since 23MB cached shows that the system has no ram shortage i
think its especially stuff like md5sum which reads a lot of data blocks
which generates the load.
> 14639 maor 12 0 324 324 276 R 0 1.7 0.5 0:00 md5sum
> 14598 maor 7 0 1040 1040 824 S 0 0.3 1.6 0:00 dpkg-scanpac
Greetings
Bernd
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