[wplug] high load averages

[John Harrold]

Sometime in November James O'Kane assaulted the keyboard and produced:

| 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?

hum.. it might have on sat. would it take this long for the problem to show
up? it can access the server now if that matters.


| 
| > can anyone else think of a cause for the high system
| > loads?
| 
| See above.
| 
| 
| -james

from this post on google it appears that the intr option will help me. any
thoughts or opinions?

http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=96jhpf02cc2%40enews3.newsguy.com&output=gplain

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