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From: badri@valhalla.ee.rochester.edu (Badri Lokanathan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Record High Load Average
Message-ID: <2197@valhalla.ee.rochester.edu>
Date: 13 May 89 09:02:00 GMT
References: <89May13.024652edt.11593@neat.ai.toronto.edu>
Reply-To: badri@ee.rochester.edu (Badri Lokanathan)
Organization: UR Dept. of Electrical Engg, Rochester NY 14627
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In article <89May13.024652edt.11593@neat.ai.toronto.edu>,
rayan@AI.TORONTO.EDU (Rayan Zachariassen) writes:
>>   8:28pm  up 5 days, 22:16,  16 users,  load average: 378.75, 245.91, 162.11
>> 

A warning here: you could also get ridiculous numbers if ps U was not run
to create /etc/psdatabase (assuming you run 4.3 BSD), or boot off a
kernel that is not /vmunix (so that ps doesn't nlist the right kernel.)
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