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From: davidsen@sungod.crd.ge.com (William Davidsen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Load Average
Message-ID: <745@crdgw1.crd.ge.com>
Date: 12 Jun 89 20:06:10 GMT
References: <2910@netmbx.UUCP>
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In article <2910@netmbx.UUCP> fischer@netmbx.UUCP (Axel Fischer) writes:

| Is ist normal to have a load average of at least 1.00 ? At my company we have
| a SUN 3/50 it displays almost 0 (around 0.10) when nothing happens.

  Not on either of my systems... on a quiet system I do see all zeros
from time to time. Sounds as though you have a hungry "idle daemon"
running. Do you by any chance leave vpix running?
	bill davidsen		(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM)
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