Path: utzoo!utgpu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!bionet!agate!ucbvax!ucsd!hub.ucsb.edu!tom From: tom@bears.ucsb.edu (Tom Weinstein) Newsgroups: alt.hackers Subject: Re: Speaking of load averages... Message-ID: <10213@hub.ucsb.edu> Date: 29 Mar 91 23:13:22 GMT References: <7557@idunno.Princeton.EDU> <1991Mar29.005015.11334@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> Sender: news@hub.ucsb.edu Reply-To: tom@bears.ucsb.edu Distribution: alt Organization: Silicon Graphics Inc. Lines: 17 Approved: Me. You wanna make somethin' of it? In-reply-to: cks@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu's message of 29 Mar 91 05:50:15 GMT In article <1991Mar29.005015.11334@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>, cks@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu (Chris Siebenmann) writes: > | 11:24am up 7732 days, 6:45, 1 user, load average: 2713601.58, 103456.43, > | -3039.94 > | > | Orchid has been up for over 20 years, and one single person is > | running some HUMUNGOUS job to put the load average at 2.7 million! > | I guess the kernel was dispatching processes that weren't ready to > | run for a while there when the load average was negative 3000. This is a pretty good sign of a damaged kernel. As a matter of fact, we had this happen just last week. We had a kernel with a bad device driver. -- He is Bob...eager for fun. | Tom Weinstein tom@bears.ucsb.edu He wears a smile... Everybody run! | tweinst@polyslo.calpoly.edu