On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 01:19:10AM -0500, Chuck Yerkes wrote:
> Quoting Timothy Vogelsang (net@astrolink.org):
> ...
> > Just installed NetBSD as a move (change) from FreeBSD, heard good things
> > about hardware support and it appears to be a nice system.  However, I've
> > noticed my load is insanely high, sitting around 0.36 Avg after navigating
> > myself through the file system.  
> > ...
> 
> Hmmm, I've got 3 windows open to machines running at loads
> of 18, 30 and 50 (being 4-way, 4-way and 8-way respectively).
> 
> And 0.36 is "insanely high"!?
> 
> methinks it might just be "top" maybe a little init, packets coming
> by on the net.  < 0.5 is just background noise to me.

Well, on 1.6ZG, for no apparent reason load sometimes rushes up to
> 2 with top (i - not reporting idle processes) & update 1 showing
only top & XFree running ... wasn't like that on < 1.6Z ...

-Martin