On Wed, Nov 24, 1999 at 10:24:49AM +0200, Antti Kantee wrote:
> On my desktop i386 at home it really has a load average of over 2
> always and is running essentially nothing more than xosview and a
> loadmeter. If I fire up a compile, say make -j 10 the load jumps up to
> ~30. I guess i386 is just crap ;P

Hum, xosview ... what does top say ?
I'd suspect you have one point of load for the xosview process and another
one for X. This utility seems to do bad things with the X protocol (I
discovered when a user started it over ssh here ... ssh was too slow for it :)

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