Load average way too high

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From: John Tucker
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 14:58

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I hope some one has some clues on this.

We are running Ultrix 4.2A on a miscellaneous bunch of Decstations 
(3xxx's 5xxx's) and are running into a strange problem.

Every once in a while with no real pattern, the load average (as reported
by w -u) climbs and gets up around 3.50.

There are at most 3 or 4 users logged in at any time, so this seems way too
high. A 'ps -aux' reveals that 'inetd' and 'syslog' are the major 
consumers of %CPU and %MEMORY.

I have checked the /etc/*.conf files and compared them with other unix
systems here and they are similar. Any suggestions??

Let me know by e-mail, and I will summarize
-- 
jtucker@uwo.ca  John Tucker

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest
in students.

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