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- From: nelson@reed.edu (Nelson Minar)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
- Subject: Re: Load average way too high
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.221153.18355@reed.edu>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 22:11:53 GMT
- Article-I.D.: reed.1993Jan25.221153.18355
- References: <1993Jan22.145823.10967@julian.uwo.ca> <1993Jan25.180613.14316@bernina.ethz.ch>
- Reply-To: nelson@reed.edu (Nelson Minar)
- Organization: Reed College, Portland, OR
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- In article <1993Jan25.180613.14316@bernina.ethz.ch> karrer@bernina.ethz.ch (Andreas Karrer) writes:
- >Processes in resource-wait state (check with ps aux|grep D) also contribute
- >to the load average; any hung tape drives around?
-
- I've noticed that zombie processes consistently add one to the load
- average. Beats me why this is true - zombies consume the least
- resources possible for any process. On the other hand, zombies aren't
- supposed to stick around for very long, so in theory you wouldn't have
- a zombie inflating the load average for very long.
-
- Tell that to the child of the rpc.yppasswdd that's running now.
-
- Has anyone hacked sps so that it can read the arguments to a process
- in the listing?
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