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From: johnsson@decwrl.UUCP (Richard Johnsson)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: misleading load average
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Date: Wed, 23-Oct-85 10:15:30 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 23 10:15:30 1985
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Organization: DEC Western Software Lab, Palo Alto, CA
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I have a VAX 785 running Ultrix 1.1 which has been reporting a load average
just over 3 all night although there is apparently nothing going on (ps
shows nothing running except itself; mon reports no processes in the run
queues and over 90% idle time).  I believe I have also seen this on 4.2
sytems here.

Can anyone explain or provide a fix?
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	Richard Johnsson, DEC Western Software Lab, Palo Alto, CA
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