On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 08:02:27AM +0300, Jukka Marin wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 02:24:11PM -0700, Michael Graff wrote:
> > Frank Wennmohs <frankw@bph.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> writes:
> > 
> > > 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.
> > 
> > Is the disk running a lot?  That is, is it paging or anything?
> 
> Or forking?  Forking new processes seems to cause lots of system load.
> 

No, just one process running.
No swapping and no forking.
Might be some SYSV IPC is going on there.



Frank