Subject: Re: High system load during memory access?
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: None <keks@kibla.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 05/18/2003 11:36:29
Is this running on a dual processor machine?


On Sun, May 18, 2003 at 08:52:31AM +0200, Frank Wennmohs wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I am running a somewhat larger calculation (MPQC)
> under NetBSD-1.6.1 using 250MB RAM in a 512MB
> machine.
> 
> When the calculation is using all its 250MB
> of memory, the system load in top is around 50% !
> Otherwise no IO or anything else is running, the
> whole calculation stays in RAM.
> 
> Can anyone explain this strange behaviour?
> 
> 
> 
> Frank
> 
> 
>