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Subject: bogus load average calculations in aux 2.0
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As I use my system more, the load average appears to increase monotonically.
`ps' indicates not much is running or runable, but the load average is
still way up there.

This just pissed me off enuf to cause me to have a look at it.  It appears
that every process that is suspended (state == stopped) adds to the load
average.  Try this using /bin/ksh:

	% ksh
	% ksh
	% ksh
	% ksh
	% ksh
	% ksh
	% ksh
	% ksh
	% ksh
	% suspend
	% suspend
	% suspend
	% suspend
	% suspend
	% suspend
	% suspend
	% suspend
	% suspend

	Note that the load average ramps up rapidly, while retaining
	responsiveness!