[ale] load issue

[Benjie]

do you have any zombie, or otherwise dead processes?  I have seen my
load average go up mysteriously ( no real cpu load) when there was a
dead process that had a file locked.

Benjie

On 6/21/06, Tim Meanor <timothy at meanor.net> wrote:
> 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.
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