Subject: Re: High system load during memory access?
To: None <keks@kibla.org>
From: Frank Wennmohs <frankw@bph.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
List: port-i386
Date: 05/18/2003 13:12:01
On Sun, May 18, 2003 at 11:36:29AM +0200, keks@kibla.org wrote:
> 
> Is this running on a dual processor machine?
> 
> 

No, single CPU.


Frank




> 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
> > 
> > 
> >