In response to Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Any ideas *why* my load is so high when my desktop wasn't touched for 9, 10 > hours? > I was running mostly KDE3 konsoles, and had a few other processes going, the > apps iconisized. The server is still running; I've killed everything I can > think of > to reduce the load. It may be that the screen won't come back if the load is > > > 1.00. I'm upgrading my kernel to see if *that* has any effect. O/wise, I'm > out of > ideas.
Doesn't sound right at all. I've seen my load avgs go much higher than 2 on my desktop and not had much difficulty logging in. Generally, slow logins are a symptom of IO starvation, as an inability to get to a disk page is more of a show stopper than contention for CPU resources. How much of your swap is in use? What are the pagein/ pageout statistics during this? Are you sure the disk isn't dying? -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
