It doesn't look like it. I let the server sit over night, and the loads
are back to normal levels now (0.08,  0.08,  0.08)

The only things my machine is running is micq, a few shells, named and
apache. Apache hadn't seen any action in the hour leading up to my
discovery of the high load. 

I don't know if it helps any, but I'm runinng 1.4.2/i386. 

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// Erik Huizing   huizing@cpsc.ucalgary.ca
// www.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~huizing

On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Manuel Bouyer wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 10:18:02PM -0700, Erik Huizing wrote:
> > I just noticed the load on my machine is unusually high. The wierd thing
> > is that its not doing anything. Top says this:
> > 
> > load averages:  2.11,  2.13,  2.09				22:12:51
> > 28 processes:  1 running, 27 sleeping
> > CPU states:  0.3% user,  0.0% nice,  0.0% system,  0.0% interrupt,  100% idle
> > Memory: 9584K Act, 2124K Inact, 248K Wired, 42M Free, 4K Swap, 64M Swap free
> > 
> > Looking over the %CPU from ps -ef says everything is pretty 0.0%. Same
> > thing from top when I sort by CPU. The system doesn't seem sluggish
> > either. 
> > 
> > So why is the load so high?
> 
> Maybe you have a process or two which wakes up very often but for a very short
> period of time. So it increases the load but uses almost no CPU.
> 
> Some programs polling for events (like battery status bars) can do this.
> 
> --
> Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
> --
>