On Wed, 19 Jul 2006 12:09:12 +0100, Mark Cullen <mark.r.cullen@gmail.com>
wrote:


> 
> I think my load average problem may be something to do with Samba or 
> RAIDFrame?! That's the only thing I haven't really tried to kill (it'd 
> be a bit of hassle because all of my computers are logged on to the 
> server). I've tried killing everything but Samba and it doesn't make any 
> difference.
> 
> I'm guessing that it's not really anything to be overly concerned about, 
> as I am not experiencing slowness and the CPU time in `top` says it's 
> nearly always idle. It's a little annoying having it constantly ~1.00 
> when it's not actually doing anything most of the time, but never mind 
> :-) Makes it look busier than it actually is I suppose!
> 
I used to have a machine that showed that symptom.  It wasn't running
RAIDFrame or Samba, and behaved that way well before the new VM system.  I
never did figure it out.

		--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb