[ale] load issue

[Tim Meanor]

On Jun 21, 2006, at 7:49 PM, David Corbin wrote:

> I have box that is getting "loads" in the 4-5 range, but when I run  
> top, it's
> 97.5% idle, and there are not 5 jobs that list a %CPU > 0.0.
>
> When I login to the box, it's very responsive.  But, when I ssh to  
> it, I never
> get any response.  It doesn't fail, just hangs.
>
> This box is inside my firewall, so while it's possibly that it's  
> been hacked,
> I think it "not likely" (and I certainly hope it hasn't been).
>
> David
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How many processes do you have running?  A large number of processes  
(hundreds) can drive up your load.