[wplug] high load averages

[James O'Kane]

On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, John Harrold wrote:
> so my questions are could the sleeping automounts be causing the high
> system loads? 

yes. I can't the reference right now, but those number are the number of 
process in the ready state, plus 1 for every process in a diskwait, or 
something along those lines.

>if so can i try to kill them?

Try all you like.

> i tried to kill the ls but that
> didn't work too well. 

Unless things have changed, you can't killa process in a diskwait until 
the I/O has completed. It sounds like a remote server you were accessing 
went away?

> can anyone else think of a cause for the high system
> loads?

See above.


-james