>> Basically, after xload has been running for several days, sometimes it
>> just "freaks out".  It will start eating all CPU time, and will be
>> constantly stuffing this into stdout:
>> 	Warning: Select failed; error code 22

>As a wild guess, have you option'd the variable TIMER_FREQ in your config
>file to try to make the clock run more accurately?  If so, don't do this.

Actually, no -- I don't have TIMER_FREQ anywhere in my config.

Is it possible for it to return bogus values even without changing
TIMER_FREQ?

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  Michael L. VanLoon                           michaelv@MindBender.serv.net
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