Subject: Re: Strange load factor ...
To: Wolfgang Rupprecht <wolfgang@wsrcc.com>
From: Thorsten Frueauf <s_frueau@ira.uka.de>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 06/09/1998 19:53:03
Hello!

> > Hi,  I have been seeing the load factor go to 1 on a machine I'm running
> > (NetBSD-1.3_BETA/i386) and I have not been able to find the process that
> > is responsible for the load.

I have seen that too, and randomly still see it under 1.3F.

> It happens here so much that I ignore the load average.  Usually the
> culprit is either acroread or netscape which is running either under
> linux or freebsd emulators.

Nope, I saw this even shortly after a freshly booted system, e.g. after
mounting a cdrom... and I really wondered about that too, but found
nothing to track it down.

Greets
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