[wplug] high load averages

[John Harrold]

hey.

ok. i've had this problem intermittently in the past, and it has creeped up
again. we have a computer that will have unusually high loads. when i look
at top it indicates that there is plenty of memory and cpu available. so
this morning i came in and i found the system load averages were all 9.

the computer is completely responsive. it doesn't appear to have any
problems. i only noticed because log watch emailed the following to root
from sendmails logs:

rejecting connections on daemon Daemon0: load average: 14
rejecting connections on daemon Daemon0: load average: 14

there were quite a few of these.
when i run the following:

  ps axl | grep ' D '

i get about 8 instances of 'automount' and 1 instance of 'ls' that are in
uninterruptible sleep. another thing i've noticed is that somehow automount
has mounted one nfs export three times and another twice.

so my questions are could the sleeping automounts be causing the high
system loads? if so can i try to kill them? i tried to kill the ls but that
didn't work too well. can anyone else think of a cause for the high system
loads?

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